My thoughts exactly. What kind of 1950's alternate reality (one that has morphed the actual racists from Democrats to Republicans) is Mr. Greenberg living in? The only blatant racism I see is from the left. Even a whiff of a misconstrued statement from anyone right of Joe Liebermann and the media would have a feeding frenzy for weeks, if not longer.

That's one of the things I love most about AZ - and now that it's a constitutional carry state, I can legally carry a concealed weapon without a permit (and I do...). The squeamish libs who see such a society as "violent" have to ignore the absolute inverse correlation between gun crime levels and the ability of the citizenry to protect themselves. Just look at Chicago and NYC as examples of keeping guns on ONLY the hands of criminals, and the gun crime rate of the more progressive (defense-wise) states like Montana where a LOT of people carry. It's the old saw - "an armed society is a polite society".

Bravo, Doug. Well said, all of it. For those want to call Mr. Giles a hypocrite for admitting that he's having trouble living up to Jesus' teaching on forgiveness... get over yourselves. He's admitting that he's falling short of perfection - something that we do daily (or more often). And besides, I've heard worse directed at Republican politicians for the "crime" of not being mindlessly liberal on all matters. I took Mr. Giles' advice, and any home invader that picks my house is going to have a "warm reception" (two to the chest, one to the head). Even better, after that, I'll probably be ready to forgive them.

Fred, Do you even understand the difference between "income" and "wealth"? Income is what we all have - wealth is what the responsible accumulate.

I'm in the middle (literally) of reading 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand, and the parallels to that 50+ year old story and today are giving me the creeps. I almost don't want to finish the book (I'm not sure I wanna know what happens next in the novel and in Obama's US).

We're once again treated to an empty, vapid rant about the evil right, which relies entirely on entirely avoiding the actual facts (the lesson plan, as so many others have pointed out). This is the sum total of the logic and debate skills of the left - "if the facts don't fit their ideology, they're simply not facts". We read about the "healthcare myths" from the slobbering media, which never bother to mention the fact that those "myths" are better called "facts" (yes, as it now stands, the health care bill WILL cover illegals, WILL pay for abortions, and WILL result in health care rationing).

The good news? People are finally waking from their slumber and the MSM is dying on the vine as they abandon the networks and...

The fact the output from the models is wrong suggests that the logic BEHIND THE MODELS is wrong, not that some pinhead programmer simply created a faulty algorithm.

To put it simply (and I'll do so without making ad hominem attacks, something you seem incapable of - the first sign of a meritless position, BTW), the models rely on the premise that an increase in CO2 levels will cause a significant increase in temperature levels. That is the core foundation of these models, none of which have proven to be capable of predicting anything remotely close to the reality that follows.

I'm not sure which part of that logic escapes you, but it's not really rocket science. A model that is incapable of accurately predicting outcomes...

Bob, the Wall Street computer model maker creates a computer model and claims that this model will predict the future price of Widetco. His premise is that the sale of wooden tops is affecting the stock price of Widgetco (understand that Widgetco doesn't make wooden tops). He claims a perfect correlation between the production of wooden tops and the stock price of Widgetco, and predicts that the stock price of Widgetco will double in the next 10 years as the sale of wooden tops goes up by 1% per year. 10 years later, with the sale of wooden tops actually increasing 1.2% per year, the value of Widgetco has actually declined by 10%. "Not to worry", shout the Bob defenders, "wooden top sales are expected to go up by 1% a year, and...

Here's the tortured logic Jeffrey and other true AGW believers have to use...

1) The earth is generally warming over the recent past (this we can all agree on, even including the fact it's cooled off during the last decade).
2) CO2 is the primary reason for the observed global warming because the computer models (built by those who rely on AGW-related grants for their paycheck) tell us so.
2) Those same models have consistently predicted significant warming over the last decade, based on the CO2 levels continuing to rise (which they did).
3) Oops, the models were woefully inaccurate, and failed to predict anything that actually happened. In fact, they're also equally inaccurate when applied to previous periods (using...

Hmmm, very interesting.

I downloaded the data set for the US, then worked up the average numbers by year. Sure enough, I show a very slight increase during the last decade or so.

Then I noticed something "funny" (and not "ha-ha funny").

A lot of the data for the years 1999-2008 is MISSING. I noticed that there were very few cities reporting through most of the time period, ramping up to 85 cities by 1948, then holding pretty steady, climbing to 88 cities in 1987-1990, and dropping to 86 cities in 1991-2000. Then a funny thing happened - five cities "disappeared".

The cities with missing data in the post-1999 timeframe are:

Del-Rio, TX (2001-2007)

Cape Hatteras, NC (2007-2008)

Little...