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Published NWFDN Feb 22, 2007

Sadly political science has trumped the analytical science of global warming. Government funded scientists, environmentalists, Congress, and the mainstream media have all decreed manmade global warming a fact. However scientific observations and models don’t support their conclusions.

Ice core and coral reef samples show the earth has cycled from glacial to interglacial warm periods for millions of years, without mankind’s intervention. Water vapor constitutes 95% of all greenhouse gasses, but manmade CO2 constituting 0.001% of our atmosphere, is designated the global warming driver. Yet, observations show that global warming usually precedes rather than follows CO2 increases.

What then causes these cycles, if not man? A combination of uncontrollable external factors, such as periodic changes in the sun’s radiation, eccentricities in the Earth’s orbit from near circular to elliptical, and changes in the tilt and precession of Earth’s axis.

Even the IPCC’s “Climate Change 2007 Summary for Policymakers”, released before the actual report was completed, admits, “ice core data indicate the average polar temperatures (125,000 years ago) were 3 to 50C higher than present because of differences in the Earth’s orbit.” The report also predicts temperature and sea level rises in the next 100 years of 3.2o F and 7 –23 inches, far below previous estimates.

Phony hockey stick graphs emphasizing recent abnormal global temperature rises by deleting medieval warming and mini ice ages and computer climate models failing to predict observed global temperatures and sea level rises when back tested, only politicize and detract from legitimate analytical climate change science.

Do not trust any poll that does not include the details or demographics of the poll; such as numbers of Republicans, Democrats, Independents, registered voters, and likely voters. Also check to see if any of these polling groups are weighted; such as Republicans - 0.8, Democrats - 1.2, etc.

Polls are meaningless or misleading without details on how the poll was conducted.

Thank you for revealing who really wrote this article. Lonsberry did indeed “nail it.”

How we end up in life is determined by ability, determination, and life choices.

There are four basic choices which will largely determine how successful and prosperous one will be.

1. Graduate from high school - Expand your education. Go on to either trade school or college.

2. Get a job - Excelling at any job leads to better jobs.

3. Get married - Stay married by loving, respecting, and honoring your spouse and children.

4. Don't have children before getting married - Marriage is a commitment. Hooking up is not. It leads to desertion.

Reducing income inequality results in everyone reaching the same level of poverty.

We are at a crossroad. I fear, if we go down the path to Obama's "fundamental change," we may never get back to the freedoms and individual liberty we have thus far enjoyed.

Read the comments to this article. They are very instructive and illuminating.

As an Air Force and airline pilot I loved to hand fly every aircraft I was lucky enough to pilot. Modern autopilots are great, but they don't need the practice. I did! I enjoyed every minute of it, and it proved to be very useful getting out of some very ticklish and life threatening situations.

With reliance on automation, flying is becoming a lost art, a skill we can't afford to lose.

Things haven't changed much over time, except that government officials at the highest levels seem to have made things worse.

Obamacare helps workers to escape job lock so they can move into welfare-poverty lock.

On further study of “Abrogation in the Koran” by Rev. Anwaral Haqq, June 2006, http://www.muhammadanism.org/Quran/abrogation_koran.pdf, neither of these verses are listed as being abrogated. If so, Israel has been granted to the Jews by God.

Don’t think Muslims will go along with Haqq’s study though.

There are two Koran’s. One was written by Mohammed in Mecca, which is the peaceful version. The second was written by Mohammed in Medina and is political or a harsher version towards Kafirs,(unbelievers) and abrogates or invalidates contradictory verses in the Meccan version.

So, though it may be true that Mohammed recognized the right of Jews to occupy Israel as decreed by God, he abrogates, or invalidates this verse in the Meccan version.

Most if not all Muslims prescribe to the Meccan version. So, there is no contradiction in the two versions.

Really? But they are the enemy of the Afghan people.

Sorry, I meant Post 12.

See Post 13.

Thanks again Jack for your response. an article titled “The Pilgrim Story: Vital Insights And Lessons For Today” by Dr.Judd W.Patton of the Bellevue University Economic$ Department states; “The contract between the Adventurers (the London Virginia Company) and the Pilgrims consisted of ten points. The most critical of which stated, “that all such persons as are of this colony are to have their meat, drink, apparel, and all other provisions out of the common stock and goods of the said colony.” Further it was agreed that during the first seven years, “all profits and benefits that are got by trade, traffic, trucking, working, fishing, or any other means of any persons, remain still in the common stock until the division.”

Communal arrangements seemed to be springing up at that time and seemed like good ideas till they failed, as they did in the Plymouth colony.

I've yet to find a copy of that contract but will keep looking.

So it appears you and others were right. The Mayflower Compact was not the culprit that dictated an communal style of governance.

Jack: Thanks for the response. As I said to Sherman, there seems to be nothing in the Compact that specifically dictates a communal style of government. It may be implied in the part of the Compact that states...”do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid.”

As he stated, the colonists were employees of the London Virginia Company, not independent colonists.

The communal style of government appears to be the company’s policy and the phrase, “covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic” seems to lend itself to that style of governance.

Anyway, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Fortunately the colonists changed from a commune to a private ownership style that served them well from then on.

Thank you for the correction. There seems to be nothing in the Compact that specifically dictates a communal style of government. It may be implied in the part of the Compact that states...”do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such as just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought to most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.”

As you stated, the colonists were employees of the London Virginia Company, not independent colonists.

The communal style of government appears to be the company’s policy and the phrase, “covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic” seems to lend itself to that style of governance.

Anyway, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Fortunately the colonists changed from a commune to a private ownership style that served them well from then on.

Thanks again for the correction.

This is a humble offering of a letter offered to my local newspaper that might supplement letters regarding the origin and significance of the Thanksgiving holiday. This letter to the editor was submitted and published two years ago as "Pilgrims Progress." It was initially rejected because the paper's policy was not to repeat past letter until they discovered they had no letters on Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving day, so it was republished as "The True Story." Note, the first Thanksgiving feast occurred in 1621 but was not as bountiful as the one celebrated in 1623 after Mayflower Compact changes from public to private ownership of property brought forth truly bountiful harvest from then on.

Those fiscally conservative ideas will not happen with the current crop of establishment (RINO)Republicans in power. They fear Obama and his progressive minions and are focused primarily in staying in office, not taking measures to straighten out our economy. Sadly they tend to go wherever the MSM wind blows them.

We need more Tea Party conservatives.

It's not enough to defund and/or repeal Obamacare, but Republicans need to propose an alternative.

How about a consumer centered and funded health care plan. Allow individual tax breaks for health insurance premiums and treatment, with refundable tax credits for the poor. Allow insurance to be purchased from any state at the level of coverage desired, ranging from full coverage to catastrophic coverage. Finally allow tax free Health Savings Accounts so people can save for increased senior health care costs.

It's great to oppose costly unworkable and unsustainable programs, but simply opposing or saying no is useless without a better solution.

Always being negative is a turnoff. Let the republican party be the party of fiscally conservative ideas.

Sequester? Sequester? They don’t need no stinken sequester!!