Anyone who still says the Democratic party is the 'party of the common man' is either a damn fool or a damn liar...

Notice they don't enlighten us at to who, exactly, these "independent statistics experts" are; also notice the spin that "They (skeptics) say that since then, temperatures have fallen—thus, a cooling trend.".

That's not the case.

The argument is not that the we have had a cooling trend, but rather that temps have plateaued since 1998, even as the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased,; and this is just as important, because according to the GHG model the temp should be rising as the CO2 level rises.

I wonder if this isn't in response to that BBC story two weeks ago where they finally admitted that the science isn't really settled yet... talk about Hell freezing over!

Hell of a part of the world to be hiking in...

Where were they planning on backpacking next? Thru the jungles along the Colombian/Venezuelan border???

"Read my lips... No new taxes!" - George H.W. Bush, 1992

Those who forget the past....

"Dude, I couldn't agree with you more, and I'm ready to help you get all this evil out of your life! Let's start with you CD's and your DVD's; they are all funded, produced, and distributed by corporations. Next we will work on the stereo; again, all produced and distributed (and, incidentally, researched by) corporations. We can then move on to the TV and DVD player, then your computer; that will make a nice start. Then, if we can find someone with an acetelyne torch we can move on to those mountain & street bikes that you are so proud of."

And so on and so forth...

I will probably never actually do it, but it's a lot of fun to think about.

Well said, Yervand...

On a related note, I have a friend who will occasionally go off on a rant about how evil corporations are, how they are destroying the world, blahblahblah (all the usual crapola); he will do this even as we all sit there listening to music on his stereo and/or watching cable TV, drinking commercially-produced beer, eating commercially-produced food, etc; one of these days I think I will have to grab his big, heavy, 'barbarian sword' hanging on one of the ceiling beams, and start a little tirade:

Nice eulogy, Matt...

And speaking of back up... Woody Strode co-starred with Marvin in 'The Professionals' , along with Robert Ryan and Burt Lancaster.

And, as long as we are at it, we also have Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, and, finally, Ralph Bellamy.

Y'know, the more I think about it, the more I think it is time to put that flick in my Netflix q....

My apologies if someone mentioned it already (at work, no time to read though the posts thoroughly), but another great Lee Marvin flick is 1966's 'The Professionals'

I also wanted to mention a quote of his that I saw in a gun magazine bio of him a few years ago:

"For me, pretending to be someone else is strictly a matter of business; but it is a business that I love and respect."

For an (alleged) comedian she sure doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humor, do she?