Once Again I Ask, What Happened to All the G-g-global W-wuh-warm-mum-ming?!  

Good point!

Maggiepie
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Hi Maggiepie, I think people who cook well become good chefs, people who understand mechanics well become good engineers, people who write well become good writers, people who sing well become good singers, but people who cannot do anything right because they haven't been blessed with a single skill set become - no marks for guessing.

Oh, I don't have to guess. Poll after poll continually rates politicians the lowest of the low on the list of least popular people. The only place left to go lower is when one goes into negative numbers. One can achieve minus one status if he or she has ever owned a used-car lot, & is currently a politician and a trial lawyer.

I'm just saying...

Maggiepie
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Ah, yes...The Goricle. Knows all, sees all, invented all.

In answer to what you thought was a rhetorical question, I'm sure of at least one politician who never lied to her constituents: Me. And I met a hoard of others I knew to be honest, too. And a few whom I could tell were lying through their rotten teeth.

Watch out for that broad brush, hun. It can paint right over he good guys if you use it too...um...liberally...

Maggiepie
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a message here for AL GORE, you can take those stupid light bulbs and push them where the sun doesn't shine with a red hot poker!

Its Mercury and Mercury Gas that is in the Green Light Globe.
Good one Gore, Just Bl**dywell poison with Mercury Gas,

HICCUP/

MUSCLES--Owitch! But yeah, I agree. I just hope they're broken before he does it, though!

Maggiepie
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HICCUP--Well, yeah. Maybe he'll invent a way to remove mercury from the body after it gets into us...& make a few more million bucks off us!

Maggiepie
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Don't they, though? They remind me of the 2-year old mom catches with a fist full of cookies in the cookie jar, looking at her with a big-eyed expression of innocence, saying, "No, Mommy, I wasn't trying to steal any cookies!"

They think if they just keep denying there's science to disprove their phony data long enough, loud enough, & looking innocent enough, that we'll just believe them!

As if!

Maggiepie
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No, there was a time when I believed whatever the Left said...but at that time, the Chicken Littles were all saying global freezing was coming (& again, it was all our fault--no wait, we AND capitalism were the guilty parties. Now we're supp-pp-posed-ed-ly--brrr!--burning up, & it's still the same villains? Hah? ). Then I grew up.

Maggiepie
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I'm glad I'm in Central Texas, where it's only a chilly 54 degrees! Man! I saw the photos this morning (& all week!) of the blizzards all over! Even I don't like snow that much! Whew! The news says the U.S. is having record-breaking temperatures--& it's still only Autumn!

BRRRRR!

I need an extra blanket or 2 on my bed (& I already have 2!).

Maggiepie
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Yeah, I get you. I once had a similar experience in New Orleans, Louisiana. Again in Houston, the same Winter (1969 or 70--can't recall...geezerhood, you know...). The streets were like glass; everything not moving (& a few things which were!) was slick with an inch or so of ice, including some unfortunate grackles who had fallen to the sidewalks from the ice-encased trees. I felt like crying for the poor birds....

I also recall one Winter where--for the first time in anyone living's memory there, ice & snow fell in northern Louisiana (famous for its mild winters!) & remained for 3 days! That Winter, my Dad had unexpectedly died, & I went to see Mom & go to his grave, & I was astonished to find her toilet had frozen solid inside her house! Also, a large rain barrel behind my Grandma's house had frozen almost solid, leaving only a core of very cold water about 2 to 3 inches wide in the center! That was in the early 80's, as I recall.

Yes, all the scientific evidence (unfalsified science, I mean) plus my own experiences tell me that we are indeed in a cooling--NOT a warming period!

Maggiepie
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Well, you've got the wrong idea about the so-called "separation of Church & State." That's no surprise, given that it's a common mistake a lot of people make, which is encouraged by the anti-Western Socialists, as they get money & power from its promulgation.

The fact is, that's not Constitutional at all, nor did the Founders ever intend the 2 to be totally separate. In fact, what they aimed for was total freedom of religion, not restricted in any way by the State, yet fully able to inform & guide the state.

Religion, with those who take it seriously (& most Americans do, to one degree or another) is a 24/7 thing. We don't segregate it from work, school, or politics, because we know it's too important to bow to those.

If it's warmer for now in Greece, it certainly isn't so here (or in some other places). These are merely natural cycles. It's happened countless times, so don't be afraid. It will be cooler for you again, just as the blizzards here will eventually go away. We still have 4 well-defined seasons, as do other places, now, & we, too, have had times (decades ago) when the year seemed to only have two--yet the rest of the world didn't. You can't judge the entire planet on just your country.

Then, too, since it has now been proven that there are "scientists" who are prepared to lie, hide, destroy & falsify data, & even bully scientists whose studies contradict their false data--even to threatening them & their families' lives--there just is no reason to get "all wee-wee'd up," as Obama put it (), over the matter of weather.

Maggiepie
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I wasn't speaking of just the US Mags, I don't approve of religion being brought into other subjects apart from religion. And we're not having a warm spell here we're having winter when it really shouldn't be. It's not just Greece which is seeing climate changes much more severe but it is definitely happening. I'm not on either side of which set of scientists is right or wrong, but I do think some countries waste far too much energy.

Undoubtedly, some do. Germany certainly did while it was locked behind the wall, & they didn't clean it up, as we do.

You might not approve of it, hun, but Christians (among others) are religious in all points of life. We don't lock it up in a building that we open up once or twice a week. "The Church" has always meant the people. God is in our lives at all times, all places, & all our thoughts & deeds. We couldn't segregate Him even if we wanted to--which we don't.

Maggiepie
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral & religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --John Adams

What a delicious joke!

Yes, it's all over TV what it looks like up North. My favorite picture was the one I mentioned, of the sidewalk cafe tables looking like white mushrooms, with so much snow piled on their flat tops! Or maybe it was the film clip of the dad burying first one 5 or 6 year old son, then, as that kid burst from the snow, laughing, he would bury the other (slightly younger) son. Then back to the first to re-bury him...it looked like a great game they were having!

Maybe a few Northerners are standing in line to get the answer the Eskimos asked for?

Maggiepie
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Hear, hear, Xfactor! That is the hallmark of true intelligence: recognizing that as you learn, you know there's more to learn! (And some people wonder what to do with immortality if they had it. Ha! Not I!)

Maggiepie
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Well said artistry. And if we look beyond what is happening at home I think that the water shortage across the globe will be a huge problem in the not too distant future. The creationist highlighted it months ago with his very worrying discussion about having to sell blood in India in exchange for a bottle of water in the areas where the shortages had become so severe that rioting ensued. There will be movement away from areas like that as people have a right to water, even if it is other peoples water.

Actually, it seems to many of us--myself included--that Al Gore does NOT, in fact, take his own teachings seriously, since he is a huge energy user! If he really believed that 3 years from now we're all going to be fried, he'd be doing everything in his power to cut back severely on his use of energy--but he's not.

Furthermore, those "deadlines" keep moving further & further into the future...conveniently... The "10 years" actually started some time back, & Gore thinks only 3 or so are left. Yet the sea level is still the same.

As a matter of fact, we did start cleaning things up decades ago. Look at the difference between our country's clean air & water, compared to East Germany's acid rained forests, blackened & shriveled. We've been using & creating new & improved technology to clean & keep clean our environment. Remove that technology (which such disastrous things as the infamous "Kyoto Treaty would do), & we'd be in the same shape the Soviets left E. Germany.

The ice caps, contrary to popular myth, according to satellite photos & meteorologists, are not melting, but in fact growing! And polar bears, by the way, are getting out of control, & may soon be hunted to thin them out!

Water levels come & go, but there is a cycle. It may desert one region, but it never leaves the earth. The aquifers across America are always being drained; this isn't new. I recall reading about this ongoing dilemma as a teen (I'll be 62 in a week or so). The water will only crop up elsewhere. And there must be a particular amount of oxygen in water to make it stay water, or it would dissipate into its separate gasses! So I'm sure the fish there are dying, but it can't be for lack of oxygen--not in a constantly-refreshed ocean! Someone is pushing a bill of goods on you!

Yes, we are all on this planet. So are our interlocked economies, & I don't want to see them destroyed for a hoax.

Maggiepie
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral & religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --John Adams