Azalin

Once sang "Strangers In The Night" to an ocelot.

I look forward to hearing the rest of it. Thanks for posting!

"Potential for momentum" actually makes sense if you consider the importance of momentum to lemmings.

One would think that if NASA were indeed racist, then they'd be sending as many people of color into space as they could.

Impresses with his Walter Cronkite impression at wine and cheese tastings.

Has an impressive collection of mummified lizard taints tucked away in a safe deposit box.

You absolutely do not get what I'm doing. I'm telling you that despite man's obvious contribution to the phenomenon known as smog, that it's also dependent on both geographical and weather conditions that man has absolutely nothing to do with, and is in no way a symptom of man made climate change. I'm not dancing around your point, I'm correcting you. How your takeaway from my posts has been that man has nothing to do with smog makes absolutely no sense at all.

Or Blazing Saddles.

You can choose to characterize it however you wish, but nothing is solved until it is understood, and judging by your cabinet metaphor, I'm either terrible at making my point or you're terrible at understanding it.

The word itself is a portmanteau: smoke + fog = smog. The mist is a combination of smoke and naturally occurring fog, so by definition is only partly man-made. Geography also plays a role in that fog tends to settle in lower-lying areas. I'm not trying to be picky. Things need to be properly defined and understood before anything can be done to solve them.

That wouldn't surprise me in the least. I don't think it's worth being offended over - ignorance is everywhere, and it'll drive you insane if you let it get to you. But since you appear to have a thing about smog, I would suggest that it's as much a product of weather, climate, and geography as it is of man.

The dialogue is hopeless because it's been politicized to the point where neither "side" will listen to the other, and almost nobody involved in the shouting match understands anything about climate science. It doesn't seem to occur to many people that maybe the earth has warming and cooling periods (like when we had the freaking ice ages) that cycle on their own, nor do they seem to think that computer models can be inaccurate or incorrect. And the big one - science is not determined or defined via consensus. Period.

I had forgotten about that. Didn't they also load a few pages from porno magazines into the paper trays of some of the printers as well?

So the narrative isn't taking hold so much in flyover country, eh?

Maybe they just wanted you to join in the parade?

This is certainly going back a few years. I only went to Uncle Sam's three times that I can remember, seeing the Joe Perry Project, Max Webster, and Johnny Winter. Good times, good times.

Who cares? He says all kinds of stupid $%#$. He's a troll. Go ahead and keep talking to him and see where the conversation goes.

Reading his posts is like listening to someone who constantly lectures on anal warts. All you need is to read one or two posts, and then like most of the rest of us, you just put him on ignore. The world is full of fools trying to be trolls - do we really need to give them any attention here?

That's really pathetic. Comicon? Really? You intolerant, psycho, hate-filled left wing bastards can go %$#% yourselves. Better yet, just sit there and wait for the Weinsteins and Frankens to wander by and %$#$ you themselves.

I agree one hundred percent. I was going to say something similar but you've worded it much better than I could.

Let Maryland nominate Manning and send him/her/whatever to the senate. They'll only be further marginalizing the democrats and making a laughing stock of their state.

Do you really not see a difference between what Tom said and the scenario you posted? This X 2

I'm not so sure about that. I've only exchanged a handful of posts with you over the years, but all I (or anyone) need to do is read the contents of this thread to know that you, as well as your family, are both admirable and very inspirational. I do not have a family of my own, no children. I can't imagine the anguish you've endured, and your ability to not just continue on, but to thrive, is a real inspiration. You have my thoughts and prayers, but you also have my deepest respect and admiration. The world could use more people like you.