Thus, putting a nail in this coffin is redundant exercise. And, while pulling a nail just plain painful, would growing a nail be a cure or just a malicious use of dead matter? If you can still grow a nail is the matter really dead?

Quick Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa!

Confiteor Deo omnipotenti,
beatæ Mariæ semper Virgini,
beato Michæli Archangelo,
beato Ioanni Baptistæ,
sanctis Apostolis Petro et Paulo,
omnibus Sanctis, et vobis, fratres (et tibi pater),
quia peccavi
nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere:
mea culpa,
mea culpa,
mea maxima culpa.
Ideo precor beatam Mariam
semper Virginem,
beatum Michælem Archangelum,
beatum Ioannem Baptistam,
sanctos Apostolos Petrum et Paulum,
omnes Sanctos, et vos, fratres (et te, pater),
orare pro me ad Dominum Deum nostrum.
Amen.

and all is forgiven right?
No harm, no foul weather friendship?

I missed that post, but even in the twilight of day – and my years – I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or serious.

If sarcastic, then GoTo the End of This Post.

If serious, I actually have one more comment about this whole sorry mess. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I was originally skeptical (the time frame for doomsday kept shrinking), but with the publication of Lomborg’s book, I thought the community of climatologists would clean up their work and begin the development of more credible science. That may or may not happened – to a degree which we will never know until much later. But what DID happen was (1) the continued pursuit of punitively expensive international legal controls designed to encroach on state sovereignty and (2) CRU, which clearly demonstrated the persistence of the bad work dating subsequent to Lomborg’s slap on the knuckles.

And that’s just dealing with the global warming/cooling/change part – not even addressing causation. The former is a definite maybe (just have to decide on the direction of the trend line). The latter is totally specious. If they have a convincing case to make for causation, they need to make it.

So nope, the climatological community has some serious mea culpas to deliver. But they won’t because they’re little stinkers, like most academia-based researchers.

The offer for coming clean and helping out those who’ve already spilled the beans has a limited duration.

Once you let these Nimrods sign on to Copenhagen, I doubt very much you’ll find anyone who will not back Marty.

No argument from me about the pols, but there is no excuse for these academic guys, either… a bunch of PhD’s in various scientific disciplines, they were and are hardly facing starvation a la Jean Valjean.

They should spend the rest of their natural lives defending themselves before investigators, judges, auditors and academic discipline panels, and bankrupt themselves with lawyer fees trying beat all the raps.

And when their natural lives are over they can spend eternity explaining to Lucifer why they don’t belong there.

Humble enuf fer ya?

Oh I understand that. What angers me is the hypocrisy and the chickensh^t scale relative to the Great Bank Robbery. On the one hand we have the end-of-the-worlder’s in Copenhagen fishing for their legal writs of justification while being bought off for a measly – what’s the current number – $60B?. (But I will say those valadj vectors discovered in the code are a piece of work – just breath-taking, if confirmed.)

On the other hand we have Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs allocating a few hundred million for a fund to help small businesses weather the recession, doing “god’s work” dontcha know while air brushing Goldman’s image after salvaging the bonus pool for those awesome ‘performers’ in the front office.

One side does it “for the children”. The other side does it “for the performers.”

They really do think we are that stupid.

I don’t have an informed opinion on whether the Fed should be forced to open it’s books or not, but just for the pure hubris of recent behavior, I’d open their ledgers and go at it with calipers and magnifying glass.

They really really do think we’re that stupid.

Buddy thanks for the additional thoughts — proving yet again the value of BC.

2×4, why had I no idea we were on the same page?

“Oh, but They do have a god that They call by name. They are Gods to Themselves, swapping conscience for their vanity.”

Yes. Although we had everything we NEEDED in Paradise, the serpent knew then and knows now it may ever appeal to our ego with the words “Who says YOU can’t go there?”

(The suspected mechanics in Tiger Woods’ predicament could serve as a reminder to us all.)

The excitement for the forbidden fruit will eject us Americans from our Paradise should we either fail to keep our Nimrods from the Fruit forbidden by our Constitution or fail to eject our Nimrods first.

FLATOW: And there has not been any evidence to date that we know of that shows that it’s affecting people who drink the water in the Potomac?

Dr. BLAZER: Not that I’m aware of.

FLATOW: Yeah. And does it mean that these fish then – if they become feminized, does that mean they can’t mate with the other fish and then reproduce anymore?

Dr. BLAZER: Well, no. Actually, many of the male fish that we looked at in the spring did have sperm in the testes as well. What they found in Europe with a similar fish that they’ve been looking at for a number of years is that the intersex fish produce less sperm and that sperm is less motile. And so, you know, less successful at reproduction, but they still can reproduce.

Dr. BLAZER: Let me take a phone call or two. Our number 1-800-989-8255. Let’s go to Joy in Perry, Florida. Hi, Joy, where is Perry?

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http://www.bing.com/search?q=worldwide+fall+in+sperm+count&form=IE8SRC&src=IE-SearchBox

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hmmm… random walk, let’s see chart @

recommendation: drink only Bourbon until we can evict the people’s temple from DC.