Two problems I see with the suggestions so far. First the southern reps and senators are already too rotten and the stench rising from them is so bad that you don't even want to get close to them. Sherman should have used tactical nukes when he marched through Georgia. Second if the guy doesn't want the job as rep or senator and tries to get out town before he/she is drafted into the position, they probably are a good choice

Odd that Watts, Lindzen, Christy, Singer, Idso, Soon, Baliaunas, Carter, Ball all still have their positions, all still have their grant money, all still are publishing papers, still show up as experts on FauxNews, but you they say "they are run out of town". If you repeatedly say that the derivative of a constant is an exponentil function, yes you are going to be belittled. Yes when are the author of a document that says global warming is anthropogenic and then go on the lecture circuit claiming global warming is hoax perpetrated by liberals yes your fellow scientists are going to make fun of you. Yes when you claim that you won the Nobel prize and the Nobel institute says you did not people are going to make fun of you.

Agreed maybe Ruby will finally die the death it truly deserves. Ruby and all it's ilk are a steaming pile

The paper by McLean, de Freitas and Carter that is making the rounds in the denial-o-sphere has been shredded by the climatology community for fundamental errors in mathematics. Apparently the authors repeatedly failed Calculus I because they don't understand what a derivative is. One of the authors (McLean) is distancing himself from his co-authors as well. Carter says "The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions.", but McLean says the paper doesn't reach that conclusion, the only conclusion that is drawn by the paper is that there is a relationship between the Global Mean Temperature and ENSO. Unfortunately for McLean, de Freitas and Carter the correlation is well known and has been discussed in the literature for well over 10 years. Further Carter has a long history of working for the oil and gas industry

!00% worthless is right Steve McIntyre's ClimateAudit site is full of lies distortions and he is a well known paid shill. He and Ross McKitrick have been trying to discredit Mann, Hansen, Schmidt and a host of other scientists in the climate community for over a decade. They published a paper that was so full of errors that even a high school student would be ashamed to admit they wrote it.

So you're saying that I didn't have to get a dual major (Mathematics and Secondary Education) to get my teachers license to teach in high school? Seems that that the State Department of Education that issued my teacher licenses seemed to think so. Your major and certification determine where you can teach. If you are not a secondary ed major you cann't teach in high-school. Strange the high-school my son attended had a retired PhD Physicist as a second grade teacher, the Physicist did much better job than the touchy-feely education major that he had in first grade As far as "isolating single variables and control groups are not realistic" there is a reason why state teachers colleges have lab schools and why parents have to sign waivers for there children to attend the lab schools. Yet another MAT trying to justify their degree.

I started out as a high school science teacher. In the state I got my teachers license I had to have two majors, one in the discipline I was too teach and the other in education. The education component was total and utter bullshit and I learned absolutely nothing from it. What I needed to learn about how to teach a class of 9th and 10th graders was taught to me by my mentor when I student taught. What she taught me was in complete contradiction to what the education classes taught. The methods and philosophy the education classes taught were so ineffective that they were laughable, the methods and philosophy taught to me by my mentor allowed me to teach effectively. I left high school teaching, earned a PhD and now teach and do research at a major university. The university has a "Center for Teaching Excellence", that new faculty must participate in. The center run by the education department teaches the same bovine excrement that the education department pushed when I was a student teacher and is just as ineffective now as it was then. 35 years of teaching with multiple teacher of the year awards has taught me that the old saw "those who can do, those who cann't teach" only applies to those actually believe the education department bullshit. How is it that a science, math engineering faculty member can barely manage mentoring two PhD students, but an education faculty member can GRADUATE 15 education PhD's a year? The answer is simple an education degree meaningless.

In the district that my wife teaches in, only the artsy-fartsy types have BA/MA's in education, the Math and Science teachers all have as a minimum a Masters in discipline, many have PhDs. She teaches in a midwestern state in a VERY rural district.

Yes I have tried to use linux in the last three days, NO I won't touch linux with a ten foot pole. If I want stable and powerful I will use AIX or Solaris. Linux is just a rolling disaster. I tried patching software to fix known bugs, unfortunately that resulted in an infinite loop of downloading a patch, finding the patch broke broke another tool, download the patch rinse and repeat. I gave up after about 10 tries and installed OpenSolaris, downloaded the patches and went on my way. No incompatabilities, no problems.

Are you serious? I have to ask because too often people write something meant as jest and it comes out as serious. So when are you going back in your time machine to ask the people of the 1700's to measure the air temperature with that really new fangled thing called a thermometer. New fangled because Robert Fludd was the first scientist to combine Galileo's thermoscope with a scale in 1638. Unfortunately each thermometer was unique--there was no standard scale. It wasn't until 1742 Anders Celsius proposed a scale with zero at the boiling point and 100 degrees at the melting point of water. Of course every household had a thermometer in the 1700's I hope you noticed that the ground around your house that was frozen to a depth of up to 3 feet in some parts of the US are completely unfrozen by late April or early May

stop listen to Rush and company, and those in the pay of ExxonMobile. There isn't a single credible scientist who says that the current observed increase in temperature isn't due to anthropogenic causes. Christy, Singer Avery, Lizden, Balunas Soong and the others like them all have been received their funding from ExxonMobil. When Christy and Singer publish their research work in journals they agree with Hansen. When they go on the road for Heartland Institute and host of other denier fake conservative organizations that give them large speaker fees they claimno research supports global warming

Helios is more harmful to the FOSS movement than the teacher. Teachers have a hard enough time doing their job without bovine excrement from a totally clueless idiot like Helios. Helios I'd love to see you DOCUMENT the LIE that Microsoft has given to the teachers union to influence the purchase of Microsoft software. Yes Helios Microsoft has given money to schools to buy microsoft products, but it is completely another thing to say that Microsoft has given money to the teachers union to try to influence the purchase of Microsoft software. The teachers union and teachers have NO MEANS, METHOD OR AUTHORITY to influence the purchase of anything. The whole process is controlled by the school board.