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Just planted a Golden Chain. Hopefully, it will look like this someday:

how much biodiesel is made from rice? rice is not known as an oilseed.... Kind of narrow thought. More corn production for ethanol = less land for wheat and soy = higher prices for smaller supply = more price pressure on commodities (including rice) world wide.

discuss More glaciers to climb? Sweet! From a peer-reviewed article (Pike et al. 2008) I was reading just today: "The recent rate of glacial loss in the Coast Mountains is approximately double that observed for the previous two decades". Hmm? There could be other factors at work besides ambient temperature. Think soot.

Sorry Steven, but the onus of proof falls on the group making the claim. I hear a lot about these "scientists" claiming they know with certainty, yet I haven't spoken to a single professor in person who's not at least somewhat skeptical. I'll grant that most of these teach astronomy and/or physics, but the point is, there are a lot more educated folks than you think out there who aren't convinced.

Al Gore's movie is a documentary about "truth". When he stands on stage and trumpets fiction as fact--all the while images of prophesy realized flashing across the big screen behind him--it should be clear to the average thinker that there is a big credibility issue ala Pat Robertson, Benny Hinn, or Tammy-Faye Baker. Combine this with the movie's many other fraudulent claims, and you have what is commonly called a lie. It is clear that you worship at the altar of The Church of Global Warming and I apologize if I have challenged your belief system or insulted one of your prophets. Unfortunately, the jury is still out on anthropogenic global warming.

Gore clearly states "that when you fly along the shelf in a helicopter" leaving the impression that he, or someone, did just that. There are so many claims in his little production that have been demonstrated to be patently false that this little fib is just the icing on the cake. You are either stoopid...or willingly ignorant.

Try to stay on topic, Bug. All it demonstrates is the length that the left will go to to support their global warming orthodoxy. Apparently, they will even lie.

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You sick fuck.

Kiss off. jarred. What gives a third-party concessionaire the right to extort money from monument visitors? They sure as hell don't do anything in regard to a climbing program that I can see. If I see one of these enviro-pricks asking to see my permit I'll just keep right on going.

Good info! Thanks. I will not be getting/paying for a permit to hike St. Helens this spring. I'm gonna go natural. While there are permit schemes I support, the third-party extortion racket in effect at this public monument makes my blood boil.

Looks like Carter's peace proposal held only slightly longer than your last woody. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7359661.stm

Please DO share! What is the "payoff" you speak of? "Reagan's team" pre election? When you post something like it's fact, at least have...some facts. I anxiously await your mainstream linked/posted sources. Good luck with this one.

Pretty much every American president between Truman and Reagan--with the possible exception of JFK, and in some ways, Nixon--was worthless. But along with Warren Harding, Jimmy Carter remains the worst president of the twentieth century, and any attempt to rewrite this fact is nothing more than historical revisionism taken on by the most virulent partisans.

Um...it's a R-O-A-D.

I'm constantly reminded that if you simply refuse to leave school, someone will eventually hand you a Phd. Ex presidents have a tremendous amount of influence, given their high level relationships, both domestic and international, as well as a great deal of legitimacy, given their experience. Carter, from his peace negotiations alone, is the most influential ex-president alive today, and arguably the most influential ex-president of the past century. Ex-presidents are also no longer constrained by politics. No, they can no longer order the troops to shoot up some poor dusty backwater whenever they feel like it, but they enjoy more influence in areas that are politically off limits to sitting presidents, most particularly the area of conflict negotiation. Your analysis on why Carter never served a second term is also a applying the rules of tiddlywinks to a chess game. You seem to have forgotten the economic destruction of paying for the Vietnam war, coupled with oil shocks from a certain cartel, plus over a decade of shitty monetary policy, factors which largely preceded Carter's presidency and were therefore entirely out of his control. The complexities of our dynamic world seems to continually flummox you, Dawg. I can see the static appeal of a world long dead. ...And your inability to understand this "world long dead" apparently includes the period 1977 through 1981. Jimmy Carter's own disastrous and hyper-inflationary monetary policy (basically, to just print more money) bears the brunt of the blame for his sour legacy. I like the way lefties and Democrat Party drones selectively rewrite history to fit neatly into the boxes they have built around themselves. Dumbass.

The UN is nothing more than an anti-Semite club. Looks like you're a member too! Tell me; when did the pendulum swing such that those on the right became friends of Israel and liberals (like you) morphed into Jew-haters?

Granting Palestinians the "right of return" guarantees that Israel will no longer exist. It's not even worth discussing. And how long do you follow the roadmap when every peace gesture to date has been met with endless rocket fire and suicide bombers? The Palestinian people made their choice: Hamas. Now they can make peace with Israel or live with the consequences of their own rage.

Beautiful Saturday snowshoeing up Suntop Mountain with Pope. Intermittent snow showers and sunshine.

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When even the EU won't speak to Hamas, it should tell you something.

Pretty much everything.

Yes, of course. the models predict both more intense hurricanes and fewer, smaller ones. I just love the way the COGW (Church of Global Warming) hedges their bets...

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