brenthutch

The security contractor formaly known as Blackwater, has so far unsuccessfully tried to rebrand into a kinder gentler killing machine. I propose they move in a new direction. Attached is my new logo for blackwater.

What? You would choose your vicious polar bears over the gentle manatee!??!?! What the hell is wrong with you? Have you no soul?

Yes we must protect the wetlands esp the inhabitants like the precious manatee, which is being threatened by climate change. Nearly 100 of these gentle creatures have been killed due to climate change. I spent more than a hour talking to a WWF rep trying to find out how I can help the manatees from climate change. I was told to check out their website. I told them that I had, but the only climate change threat on their website was global warming. I wanted to find out how to stop global cooling climate change. (to save the peace loving manatees) the rep had to put me on hold several times before she recomended that I make a contribution to the WWF general fund. Please help save the manatee.

Too smart by half Quade... too smart by half

Education and tough love. Give people the info to make their own choices, but dont protect them from the consequences of those choices.

All joking aside I agree with you 100%. I am a libertarian at heart.

Weak

"Reproductive limits can work but have proven to be a political hot potato. " Reproductive limits are built in to the human condition, when development is reached poulation growth nears zero. (The USA being the noteable exception) Why do you feel the overwhelming urge to controlle people?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/ipcc-slips-on-himalayan-i_b_429998.html Another view from those right wing petro corporatists at the Huffington Post

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/20/glacier.himalayas.ipcc.error/index.html These are the same guys that the AGW believers use to buttress their argument.

"If you have a mansion and leave the lights on all day, but they are powered by wind or solar, no problem." Prof. you had better bone up on econ 101

Would that be the same as a "well regulated militia?"

I agree, even the trigger is MUCH better than b4. I never would have given them another look but a buddie got on and all I can say is Wow!

You are making my point, it is not the guns. it is the situation. The variable is not who has guns and who does not, it is the underlying social economic political that drives the violence.

Harrumph harrumph, as an esteemed member of the scientific and academic communities I have observed the irrefutable link to rain and wet side walks. I have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that every time it rains the side walks get wet. Therefore I can conclusively state that anytime a side walk is wet, it must be raining. . In the off chance that you see wet side walks and do not see rain, it is only because it is raining soo hard that you cant see it. Trust me I am a scientist

So lets be clear you are baffeled by fire armes and have now idea what you are talking about. Thank you for clearing that up. Let me take the example of my little state of PA. In the city of Phillidelphia guns are not allowed and the murder rate by guns is the highest in the state. In the counties of south western PA guns out number people by 3 to 1 and the crime rate is the lowest in the state. Guns are just a tool. Just becaus you are confused by and dont understand that tool dont take it out on those that do.

Ok Iraq was bush's wet dream. But he would never have been able to do it if it was not for 911.

As for me. My dad took me hunting from before I can recall, I carried a stiick as if it was a gun for years before I got my first Red Ryder BB gun. I had to treat it as if it were loaded all of the time. WHen I joined the Army those practices were validated and reinforced. Ranger school and other classes in close quarters combat reinforced that understanding. Now I understand that a gun is just a tool. There is nothing special about a 30 round mag in an m4 with a nvd and a supressor. (as cool as it is) It is just a tool to influance the situation. Anyone who gets rapped around bayonets, flash supressors and the like is an amature that has no idea what they are talking about. Truth be told, the bummper of a car and my Jboots influanced a conflict much more then my m16 ever did. The Human brain is much more deadly that any machine gun or assult rifle. Case in point: 50 cal. sniper rifle = o people killed in the US. Box cutters = more than 3000 people killed in the US. And to drive the point home the dudes that caused 9/11 also caused Iraq and Afganistan, resulting in many more deaths and the lose of treasure and standing in the world. Look at the big picture folks, dont major in the minors

I agree, I was not smug, just oblivious when I first started skydiving. I read the Indentent Reports and thought: "sucks for him he f**d up. Wont happen to me" But after a few years and more tha a few close calls I took the reports to heart. If I understood then what I know now....I would have grounded myself

I am sorry, you just sound like a lot of posers I have met in my time. "Yeh I was a Navy SEAL and I rappeled out of a c130 into a ch47" Fill me in on your background and you qualifications and we can go from there.

News flash Kallend. thermodynamics in a test tube, is easy, everyone gets it. Just look at the decovery channel. It is a no brainer. However in the real world there are many variables that are not accounted for, and for that matter ther are variables that are not even known. World climate modeling is not as simple as you would wish it to be. I am smart enough to know that I dont have all of the answers, but I am also smart enought to know that you dont either. It appears you lack the wisdom to recognise the latter. Merry Christmas Sorry for the spelling 4am after Christmas party.

Clearly you are making this up as you go along. You have no idea of what you are talking about.

"The important issue is that we (IPCC) have yet to settle on a way to estimate the future sea-level contribution due to each mechanism, and so the jury is still out." Shepherd feels, however, that this latest research does not offer a compete picture. "The dataset covers a relatively short period (about 5 years I think) and we know that there is no reason to expect the changes to be linear". Pritchard described to physicsworld.com some of the technical problems that the team experienced when gathering the data. One problem was that they could not run the laser measurements continuously. "We had to run it in bursts, which meant our data came out a bit 'stripy'." That doesnt sound like "The science is setteled" to me.

pull off sorry

It would be nice if nature worked as simplisticly as you would want. But to paraphrase a wise man nature is not only more complecated that we imagin, it is more complicated that we can imagin..... Glaciers growing again, sea ice growing again, record low temps, a foot of snow in october in state college?!?!?!? You truly must be brilliant to do the mental gymnatics required to pull of the "global cooling is proof of global warming" stunt. Propts to you