As for evidence of AGW, it continues to be found all over the world:

West Antarctic melt rate has tripled in last decade

UCI and NASA glaciologists, including Isabella Velicogna and Tyler Sutterley, have discovered that the melt rate of glaciers in West Antarctica has tripled, with the loss of a Mt. Everest's worth of water weight every two years.
The glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica are hemorrhaging ice faster than any other part of Antarctica and are the most significant Antarctic contributors to sea level rise. This study is the first to evaluate and reconcile observations from four different measurement techniques to produce an authoritative estimate of the amount and the rate of loss over the last two decades.

"The mass loss of these glaciers is increasing at an amazing rate," said scientist Isabella Velicogna, jointly of the UC Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Velicogna is a coauthor of a paper on the results, which has been accepted for Dec. 5 publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Lead author Tyler Sutterley, a UCI doctoral candidate, and his team did the analysis to verify that the melting in this part of Antarctica is shifting into high gear. "Previous studies had suggested that this region is starting to change very dramatically since the 1990s, and we wanted to see how all the different techniques compared," Sutterley said. "The remarkable agreement among the techniques gave us confidence that we are getting this right."

Facts be facts, Jim,

But it you assume a generation is 25 years, then if you go back 14 generations, 300 years, then you have 16,224 Grandiose Parents.

I still would like to understand how you use the brackets to see if it might be easier but at least I should be able to link better until I get my MacBook back.

(Speaking for myself, I live in Honolulu, which is the safest big city over 500,000 in population in the entire country, where we had only 15 homicides in all of 2011 -- of which only one was committed by firearm.)

African-Americans presently comprise 11% of our country's population, yet 26% of all persons who are shot by the police annually are black. In fact, young black males between the ages of 18 and 29 are about 450% more likely to be shot by the police, than are members of any other ethnic demographic in that age range.

While I was visiting my mother in SoCal in March 2012, an unarmed 19-year-old Kendric McDade was shot in the back and killed by Pasadena police on a city street after officers bit on a bogus 911 call, which falsely claimed that McDade was one of two black male suspects who had been identified in an armed robbery which had allegedly taken place only a few minutes prior.

In fact, the subsequent police investigation determined that there had been no armed robbery, and that the officers shot McDade first and only asked questions ex post facto. The guy who called in the false report was indicted for manslaughter, and has since been deported. The City of Pasadena and McDade's mother are still in litigation over the matter, but the city's mayor has apologized personally to both her and her former husband for the tragedy.

Now, let's look at the larger picture. There are over 283 million firearms presently in civilian hands in this country, which represents a nearly 50% increase in the total number of guns that were owned by civilians 20 years ago, which was 192 million.

Further, about 110,000 Americans annually are victims of gun violence, which has further claimed over 31,000 lives annually in the United States over the last five years. That's about 85 deaths per day. Of that annual number, about 10,000 are classified as homicides.

While it is true that the overall death rate from firearms violence has declined over the past two decades, that is directly attributable to the greatly improved trauma care that gunshot victims are receiving. While in fact more people are being shot today than 20 years ago, they're also much more likely to survive their injuries today than they were back then.

Even so, homicide is still the second leading cause of death among all 15-24 year olds in this country, and it is the leading cause amongst African-American males. Between 80-85% of these homicides of young persons are committed with a firearm.

You might also consider as a comparison that the population of Western Europe (444 million) is about 30% greater than that of the united States (313 million), yet their collective annual rate of firearms homicide is only about 10% of our own.

While the overall percentage of gun-owning households in the United States has declined from 57% in 1977 to about 34% in 2009, the number of firearms per owner has actually increased by 68% during that same period, from 4.1 guns in 1977 to 6.9 in 2009. Clearly, our country is more awash in firearms weaponry than ever before, and perhaps more alarming, gun ownership is just as steadily becoming consolidated in a decreasing percentage of the U.S. population.

But for what, exactly? Because according the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, our tendency for inflicting and encountering firearms mayhem is apparently limited mostly to ourselves and persons we know, than would involve random strangers or intruders.

For example, if you reside in a U.S. household where guns are present, you are over five times more likely to become a victim of gun violence, than is someone who resides in a gun-free household in this country.

If you are a conceal-carry type of person who loves to exercise his or her Second Amendment rights in public, you are over seven times more likely to be involved in a confrontation involving guns, than is someone who eschews the immediate possession of firearms on his or her person.

You and members of your household are actually less safe with a gun in your abode, than you would be were you to forgo altogether the false sense of security that firearms provide. The statistics show that gun owners and gun-owning households are much more prone to experiencing gun violence, than are those households which are gun-free. And firearms assaults on family members and other close acquaintances are twelve times more likely to result in death, than are assaults with other weapons.

Please also consider that for every time a gun is used in this country by someone in self-defense, one is used eleven times to attempt suicide (both successfully and otherwise), seven times in a criminal assault or homicide, and four times in an unintentional / accidental shooting death or injury.

Finally, Second Amendment enthusiasts on the right side of the political spectrum who also consistently advocate for tax cuts might want to consider the following inconvenient fact: U.S. taxpayers are presently footing the bill for 49% of the $2.3 billion spent annually on lifetime medical costs incurred as a result of nonlethal gunshot injuries in this country.

(That statistic does NOT include any costs related to the treatment of wounded veterans who were injured in conflicts overseas, which is another deplorable topic altogether.)

Now, you are certainly free to believe whatever you want about the present state of affairs regarding gun laws and firearms safety in our country. But please note that your concept of reality doesn't necessarily jibe with the statistics.

My point is that these shows are portraying torture as acceptable, common, and effective. It is not about whether or not I am using the remote.

What you call "deliciously campy material" is, in my opinion,  being used as a delivery system for, in this instance - the justification and promotion of torture.

Of course one need not watch it.
One need not watch Fox News either.

But people here comment on the excesses and distortions being spewed out by the latter - and I felt like commenting on the former.

He acknowledges the 2 at the Tahoe, and of course the final two series' of shots which we know in retrospect from the Glide recording to have been 6 then 4 making a total of 12.

But Wilson also includes in his telling an additional series of "he doesn't know just how many" shots after Brown turns around but just before the last 6 and 4.

So that's atleast 13 and maybe what? ...14? ...15? according him.

Just how many bullets did he "find" in his chamber and drop in that bag???