Some records we'd prefer not to be broken. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time since the U.S. government began recording the concentration of the gas in the air, and likely the first time in millions of years.

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Of course we wouldn't want to stop a big useful media made disaster.

What are your thoughts about Tebow?

I feel sorry for the guy.   At this point I think he'd get another shot if not for his popularity.  

And I'll tell you - it's nice to have this happy event going on in our lives - between the wedding and spending time with our other daughter's baby, it takes the edge off the increasingly depressing news.

I was interested to see that Providence was asking to resubmit a lower cost. The Sister of Providence have over the years bought up what I think is way too much of the medical infrastructure in Oregon. In too many places in this state the only option for health care is controlled by the Catholic Church. That, IMO, is not a good thing. So, anything that makes Providence more responsive to the needs of the people is a good thing.

I simply don't like partisan idiots, esp when it comes to matters of corruption in government or justice.

"That said, I never said, or meant to convey, that it was "all about" the election. "

In the case of things that could cause the loss of life or freedom for american government workers or citizens or heck, humans (of whatever nationality) in general 'the election' should never figure into it. That it does is (things like drone attacks) disgraceful.

I asked you to show us how Hillary lied.  You quoted this:

This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We've seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing do to with.

This statement is completely accurate.  I think people forget quickly that our embassies all over the Islamic world were under attack.  Republicans made a big deal how the whole Mideast was going up in flames.   The video was the cause of that.

Our embassies in Egypt and Tripoli, among others, were under attack.

We had no embassy in Benghazi or even a consulate there.

Where is the lie?  The statement you quot absolutley true to this day.

"As ABC News reported on Friday morning, the most discussed talking points in US diplomatic history were revised multiple times before being passed to UN Ambassador Susan Rice prior to her appearances last September on Sunday talk shows. The revisions --- which deleted several lines noting that the CIA months before the attack had produced intelligence reports on the threat of Al Qaeda-linked extremists in Benghazi --- appear to have been driven by State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland, who, it should be noted, is a career Foggy Bottomer who has served Republican and Democratic administrations, not a political appointee. Her motive seems obvious: fend off a CIA CYA move that could make the State Department look lousy. (The other major deletion concerned three sentences about a possible link between the attack and Ansar al-Sharia, an Al Qaeda-affiliated group; last November, David Petraeus, the former CIA chief, testified that this information was removed from the talking points in order to avoid tipping off the group.)"  (Emphasis is mine.)

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It should be noted that while David Corn was correct in his reference to Victoria Nuland as a "career Foggy Bottomer," or foreign service officer with the U.S. State Dept., he did NOT mention that she also served as Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to -- drum roll, please -- former Vice President Dick Cheney from 2003 to 2005, until appointed by the Bush White House as the 18th United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Further, Ms. Nuland is the wife of -- repeat drum roll, please -- Robert Kagan, who was co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an affiliate of the American Enterprise Institute. Kagan is well known for having long advocated for preemptive war in Iraq prior to our March 2003 invasion of that benighted country, and further served as the principal foreign policy advisor to Republican Sen. John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Therefore, I'd like to thank you, Slado, for doggedly pursuing this story, which has subsequently led to our finding out that the apparent root cause of this Benghazi kerfuffle / controversy, the woman whose judgment apparently set all this nonsense into motion in the first place, also has substantive personal and professional ties to the greater right-wing community in Washington. Why am I not surprised?

Obviously, someone has put some very powerful hallucinogenic drugs in the water back there.  Either that, or an astonishing number of elected officials in Missouri were dropped on their heads as infants.

As a reward for my work I got to meet Geraldine Ferraro when she came to town. I was one of a small group of volunteers in the back room of a hotel ballroom. Ferraro worked the group like the pro she was. When she got to me she clasped my hand, looked deeply into my eyes and spoke the words I will never forget.

"We must end the covert war in Nicaragua. "

Having said that, I recently discovered a restaurant (Mari Luna Bistro) quite close to me that has a heavenly guacamole menu.  To wit:

Traditional:  Avocado, jalapeño, onion, tomato and cilantro

Yucatán:  Avocado, bacon bits, queso fresco, tomato and cilantro

Puebla:  Avocado, leek, poblano pepper, tomatillo, onion and cilantro

Azteca:  Avocado, pumpkin seed, goat cheese, roasted garlic, roasted corn tomato and cilantro

Cabo San Lucas:  Avocado, crab, jicama, orange, scallion, tomato and cilantro

Mayan:  Avocado, Squash, zucchini, wild mushroom, corn, tomatillo, red pepper and cilantro

Veracruz:  Avocado, mango, papaya, pomegranate seeds, tomato and cilantro

And I could be wrong, but I think there is some fresh lime juice squeezed in there as well. All ingredients are very fresh and finely chopped. Minced maybe? For example, I'd be hard pressed to pick out a bit of mango from the Vera Cruz (my fave) but it has provided flavor. The pomegranate seeds are whole, though.  Yum.

B. Given that you apparently hate nuclear power - and probably (if you are even aware of them) much safer nuclear power plants such as those proposed to run on the thorium cycle that literally cannot meltdown - just what baseload power source do you propose we use? You'll note that the non-use of a baseload power source isn't an option and that currently solar cannot serve as baseload power though it could if we built large enough solar power satellites.

C. Given our current corrupt and even downright unconstitutional political system in the US:
A. How do you propose people beat the 'big players' that currently dominate Washington?
B. Just how much more power over our personal lives and ability to make a living should we trust these goofs with?

I look forward to your answers.

But last I checked, such a person has not come forward.

Of course back in the day, people like Sagan and Paul Erlich (population bomb) always had the highly popular Tonight Show w/Johnny Carson to go on, and of course Sagan had his own PBS show, back when PBS was good and a fair number of us elitist types were regular viewers.  Not sure also if Letterman et al would have a regular slot for someone to talk about inherently depressing things like climate change.

Not even sure where in the msm-electronic these type of things get discussed except online.  Probably relegated to the occasional soft-hitting doc on NatGeo or similar -- iow, Balkanized.