I might have more confidence in your understanding of consensus if you could manage to fucking spell it right once, even by accident.

Oh, and as far as the roof goes - I did not trust the framers, carpenters, and roofers to do a good job - I had my own independent expert (an inspector) confirm that the data provided, and the method used, was in fact satisfactory.

And what, pray tell, was your methodology to verify the legitimacy and competence of the inspector?

Yeah man, you just don't get it. You see, all of those academic types pore over their "data" up in their ivory towers. And since they're up high they are closer to the Sun,so it's warmer to them.

Now compare that to the OP, who knows what's really happening on the surface of the Earth, since he can easily observe it through the window of his mom's basement...

*citation needed* ...excuse me... *peer-reviewed citation needed*

Have it play against me on the XBox. So it can learn profanity.

$6.8 billion. That's a lot of money.

Or as it's now known, three weeks in Afghanistan.

Of course, with the current [Canadian] anti-science* government your point of view may win the day. No wonder the UN doesn't want us on the security council.

Awww, that's cute, ya big Canuck puddin'. Here in America we have a museum with dinosaurs in it AND THEY ARE FUCKING WEARING SADDLES. And it is not only NOT laughed out of existence, it is doubtlessly attended by a huge swath of members of one of our major parties.

Checkmate.

Please spend my tax dollars to install one of these in Congress.

I've been saying this for years. But now that Thomas Friedman says it I am having serious doubts.

In a country where 40% of the population still doesn't accept the theory of evolution, there is no such thing as "duh" science.

Fortunately, I expect that their inability to also grasp the reality of AGW will eventually remedy the situation in a manner suitable to please this childless, atheist misanthrope.

That thing you call "dogma" is called "learning enough to know what the fuck you're talking about". And often enough, "non-conformist thinking" is better known as "bullshit from basement-dwelling crackpots". The trick to telling the difference, you see, is learning enough to know what the fuck you're talking about. And not wasting limited time, energy, and resources on the dogma-free non-conformist thinkers like yourselves.

And yes, physicists are well-known for their extravagant, research grant-fueled lifestyles. When they're not, you know, knee deep in pussy at their Illuminati meetings.

Idiot.

This was a triumph. I'm making a note here, "Huge Success."

And now you know why those of us who opposed the PATRIOT act when it was initially proposed opposed it. And were called terrorist sympathizers by FOX News and the like on top of it.

Nothing dies slower than a bad idea.

Well, whenever I use Windows I am convinced of the absence of a just and loving God.

Palin won't have read many, but her shelves will have "important" books for the looks.

She doesn't have room on her bookshelves for too many books — they are already teetering under the weight of newspapers and magazines. You know, all of them.