DO NOT STAY HOME!
IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT VOTING FOR A PRESIDENT

* The entire House Of Representatives is up for election. *
**30 Republicans are retiring - 25 in the House & 5 in the Senate: leaving their seats up for grabs!**
***Senators are up for reelection - check your state***

Get your ASS to the polls and vote. If you don't even value your rights as a
citizen, don't expect that the government will.





6/26/08

WARMING BEGETS COOLING?

Apparently, some scientists think so. I found this interesting article on the subject.
"The Earth was emerging from an ice age 8,200 years ago. Seas were warming and life was heating up. Then quite abruptly and for a relatively short period of time -- about 100 years -- the entire globe chilled down again, by almost 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit (6 Centigrade).

One widely held theory for the chill was the sudden release of a substantial amount of fresh water into the northern Atlantic."
Can we, while doing our best to responsibly steward the Earth, let nature take its own course? The article also posits that
"The oceans were able to find their balance relatively quickly in that ancient event, and the effects wore off in about a century, but a century of that kind of change today would create widespread havoc."
I'm not so sure it's a havoc that couldn't be managed. Who knows? It might bring crop friendly weather to famine ravaged Africa.

I believe that if and/or when scientists can be what scientists are supposed to be - objective, intellectually honest, fanatically-dedicated-to-pure-science researchers and experimenters - that's when climate changes and effects will be truly be identified, along with solutions and consequences. Until that happens, you can be sure that I won't be listening to Al "inconvenient energy-sucker" Gore and other members of 'Club Do As I Say, Not As I Do'.

I think I'll maintain a healthy skepticism for alarmism.

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