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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045
A special archiving event is being held in collaboration with Archive's End of Term project. Since 2008 this has saved US government websites at risk during government transitions.
Canadian "guerrilla" archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data.
Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research.
They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office.
The CBC report interviewed a Canadian scientist who described some of the scientific data that was lost during the Harper government.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday December 16 2016, @02:38PM
And the religious loonies used to be part of the Democrat party. What was your point?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @05:01PM
You convinced me with your persuasive argument of "the other guys do/did it as well".
Good job not answering the question, idiot [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @05:07PM
Are you forgetting the black church that is still a large component of the Democratic party?
Why are liberals so ignorant of history?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @06:06PM
> Are you forgetting the black church that is still a large component of the Democratic party?
I know its fashionable among ignorant geeks to make everything black and white. But not all churches are equal.
The typical republican version of christianity is prosperity gospel. [wikipedia.org] The democrats' versions of christianity are closer to social gospel. [gotquestions.org] As a muslim looking at christianity here in america it seems to me that the democrats got it right. Jesus said it is harder for a rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.
Look at Jimmy Carter the only evangelical ever elected to the office of the president. He is the living antithesis of prosperity gospel and is loathed by republicans. And on the flip side there are some black guys like Creflo Dollar [creflodollarministries.org] who are the absolute dregs of the prosperity gospel movement with absolutely no redeeming value at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @06:45PM
It's even more fashionable for people who apparently have never set foot in the South, much less is a church, to lecture people living there about what is happening [youtube.com].
I live in an area where nearly all the food banks, charities, and social programs are faith based. There's more churches here than Starbucks.
You can proffer your bullshit someplace else son, to more ignorant among you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @07:06PM
I live in Tennessee. In fact, I live just down the road from the "most bible-minded" town in the country. And what I see are tons of churches that absolutely love to pat themselves on the back for helping out poor white folks with the minimal essentials to survive - soup kitchens and shelter (but only if you attend services even if it means getting fired from your minimum wage job because your shift is at the same time as the nightly service), who don't even acknowledge poor black folks and preach from the pulpit support for government policies that insure the poor stay poor under the prosperity gospel belief that the poor should lift themselves up by their own bootstraps despite not having any bootstraps.
So fuck off you smug asshole with you faux concern.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @07:34PM
Yeah, [wate.com] I [www.ncf.church] believe [newcityfellowship.com] that. [cbn.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @08:36PM
You seem to be denying that sunday morning isn't still the most segregated hour of the week.
You are just ignorant. 86% of evangelical churches are segregated. Sure some of the SBC leadership realizes that's fucked up. But they also said Trump was a horrible candidate and the rank-and-file still voted for him like crazy.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2015/january/most-segregated-hour-of-week.html [christianitytoday.com]
http://www.charismanews.com/us/48165-sunday-morning-still-the-most-segregated-day-of-the-week [charismanews.com]
One of the reasons the rank-and-file of the SBC like their churches segregated is because the SBC was founded on segregation. [civilwarbaptists.com] It split off from General Missionary Convention in 1845 for the express purpose of supporting slavery which the GMC refused to condone. It took the SBC until 1995 to officially condone slavery. [sbc.net] Just 20 years ago. Racism was and still is the life-blood of the SBC. Its a damn embarrassment and the elite leaders know it, but they can't do anything about it because the congregations don't have to do anything the leadership says.
Like I said, I live in the south. I know my shit, it is all around me. You clearly don't have an ounce of real knowledge, just another lame-ass "google-expert" whose entire knowledge is based on googling up the rare one-off example that confirms his preconceptions.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @09:35PM
Keep moving those goalposts, boy, eventually you'll happen upon a point that sticks while ignoring every other argument that was made.
Let me direct your attention, again, that the black church (note that hint of segregation there? Thanks for pointing out the obvious) is a large component of the Democratic party, but somehow is different from white churches because "reasons". And even when pointing out that it was indeed segregated even with churches moving towards integration, the point that was missing: prosperity gospel.
From your own link:
Jesus never issued any call for political change, not even by peaceful means. He did not come to earth to be a political or social reformer. The gospel Jesus preached did not have to do with social reform or social justice or political change.
How can you tell me the black church is more a part of the social gospel, when your tirade vindicates every example of moving towards social justice? Can you not even read your own source material? You see any examples or outreaches for the poor? Google scholar indeed.
No, you're just another twit reading in what hey want to believe, missing the obvious, but because they voted Trump (because you can see into their hearts), they must be in league with TBN, but fuck me as long as the black church toadies down to your political beliefs, their hypocrisy can be overlooked.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @11:03PM
> that the black church (note that hint of segregation there?
Don't be a dipshit. Black churches are black because the white churches are exclusionary. Blaming the excluded for being left out is some whack bullshit.
> somehow is different from white churches because "reasons".
No, not "reasons." Greed and racial animus wrapped up in religious rationalization. Like most people they prefer to be told they are good people rather than confront the results of their choices.
> How can you tell me the black church is more a part of the social gospel, when your tirade vindicates every example of moving towards social justice?
Sorry, what? You pulled one sentence out of context and think that means something? Could you be any more reductive? Typical google-expert behavior.
> because they voted Trump (because you can see into their hearts),
No, I don't have to see it in their hearts. White evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Trump, [washingtonpost.com] at even higher numbers than they voted for Bush. They did it during the primaries too [fivethirtyeight.com] when they had actual evangelicals like Carson and Cruz to vote for.
You are profoundly ignorant of the realities here in the south. You know nothing about southern baptists as they live their actual lives and the history of their churches. And you clearly know nothing about the gospel either. Give up trying to rationalize your ignorant bullshit, its completely transparent.