Geez, "global warming" is a misnomer. The real name for this extremely real phenomenon is "climate change."

Look it up. It's when weather patterns of extremely long duration change because of alterations in wind and sea currents. Snow for the first time in 100 years counts.

You can insult people who suggest that its primary cause is human activity, or that humans should therefor do things differently, but you can't sneer at the basic idea that it is happening, or that humans are contributing. Even Bush acknowledges its existence.

I'm not so sure it's a joke. Here's the rest of the gallery:

http://www.linuxno.de/_data/gallery/nwl7/

There was a great deal of Krombacher being consumed at the Northwoods-LAN 2007.

BTW, is this some sort of test? First the antique tale of the atheists-that-would adopt (written when Hendrix was still alive) and then this, datelined 2004?

"Could you imagine what grief she’d be able to lay on that boy when he misbehaves?"

NOTHING compared to the grief I would have been laying on his papa for the past seven years.

And he better not have been lookin' for any since then, either.

I changed my mind about the ability of people to change.

When I was in high school and college, I was taught that science had shown that the brain continued to grow an learn, making new connections, until about age 20 or so. After that, it began to essentially disintegrate. No new neuronal growth, no restructuring of the neuronal connections, just a long slide into elderly senescence. This explained why all the great mathematical and engineering breakthroughs were made bt young people.

What a depressing prospect it offered! If you hadn't achieved intellectual greatness by 25, tant pis pour vous.

In the past 25 years, neuroscience has proven that the old beliefs are all a bunch of malarkey. The brain keeps making new connections til the moment we die. Even stroke victims can, with sufficient work and time, restructure their brains. No higher cortical function is fixed and immutable; your brain, and your self, will become what you pay attention to.

Humans can and do change - their minds, their beliefs, their talents, their personalities. If you believe that you can change - and work at it - you will. Even your IQ can be changed, which was considered once to be a fixed quantity, permanent shy of debilitating brain damage.

There is no justification to saying, "well, that's just the way I am," because we have the ability to become different people.

Hmm. How did a 37 year old story come to your attention, anyway? This is the sort of thing that might show up as an OUTRAGE! incident cited in an email from a eight-wing fundraising group. I got two yesterday myself, both about how the Federal Government wants to sue the Salvation Army. I guess that there are people who will froth and rant about these faux travesties, but they're not Neatorama readers.

You must not live in New Jersey, or you'd know that this event occurred before a lot of the Neatomarans were even born.

Tishkbob, you must see...

Where's Your Head At?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8md51JnCNFQ

for the nightmare that never ends.

Congress passes the new Appropriations bill. Now they get to go home for Christmas.

Holiday Festivities and Frolics at the Bohemian Grove

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_and_Communication_Act_of_1991

"The High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (HPCA) was a bill created and introduced by then Senator Al Gore (it was thus referred to as the Gore Bill. It was passed on December 9, 1991.

This bill led to the development of the National Research and Education Network (NREN)
(which was referred to with the rhetoric of the Information Superhighway[6]). It also led to the development of the National Information Infrastructure (also discussed through the rhetoric of the Information Superhighway [7]) the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative (an off-shoot of the HPCA), the web browser Mosaic, and the creation of a high-speed fiber optic network that, when utilized, would help stimulate the economy."

No he didn't invent high-speed protocol transfers. He saw the implications and potential use of such a system and he wrote and sponsored the bill that paid for the development and utilization of such a system. He is one of the people responsible for the fact that there is an internet that you can mock and sneer at him on, misrepresenting and ridiculing his contributions.

He was ridiculed when he introduced it, as Conservatives at the time said it was an impractical expensive pork-barrel boondoggle that would never work. Now he is sneered at for daring to remind people that without him, there would be no internet as it exists today.

Those of you who scoff at Gore's statements should take a look at the history he is referring to. Your cynical contempt is misplaced. It's more properly directed at the people who have had a vested interest in trying to erase the historical truth.

Isn't this what "Grandpa" Fred Thompson uses to write his campaign speeches?

Transformer production facilities? I thought transformers were just a cartoon fantasy!

This must be some kind of Christos-type art. How many objects get a "cozy"? Teapots. That's it.

The "Gates" in Central Park were better.

What is the name of that butt-shaking soundtrack?