I miss the good old days when the Lib's were in power and everyday was worth waking up for just to read the damn papers to see what they were up to the night before.

See! Even you wanted an election. These guys are all trying to bore us into submission. I am starting to like the fixed election date when ever it is as at least we have some sense that this damn zzzzzzzzzzzz will someday end.

I'd vote for a fixed election date so long as it was a diferent date for a majority versus a minority. 4 years and 2 years. Sounds fair to me.

Actually, I'l pulling for an election for any reason right now if only to get another minority so we can have a reason to have another leadership conference.

How can a Federal budget in 2008 not even mention the phrase "climate change"? At least there was a possibility that Iraq had WMD.

Delusional or deceptive - take your pick but it has to be one or the other.

Because that's someone else's issue, and well, insane?

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Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
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Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming.
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Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.
No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
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Don't worry though, next year you can fret about the budget doesn't address peak oil or whatever the boogeyman of the day is.

Well, going from one year with unprecedented evidence of warming conditions in the Arctic to the most snowfall in 50 years in north America and heck, snow in places like Baghdad seems to ME to be a sign of some form of "climate change".. Sure its not as scary souding as GLOBAL WARMING, but still..

"David cated"

When is change not?

Yes Alan, true enough. Having only 110 years or so of weather data with a reasonable level of accuracy and only a few hundred more with muddy "twas warm for ten yeahs aftah the greeeat stirm of 1756!" accuracy doesn't exactly stand up to the rigors of real science. 20 years of warming trends can just be a blip on 1000 years of data, which any good economist knows, and all Conservatives are of course business people at heart ;)

Climate stability might be the real problem. Sterile moons in the hell of outset space have climate stability. I must start a popular movement based around the avoidance of climate stability.