Any gun that shows up on a ban list is a defiance of the Second Amendment. Voting and driving are privileges. Owning a gun and speaking out about it are rights.

Titanic! (shhh! don't tell me! don't tell me what happens next!)

Did you look under the sofa cushion?

Obama says one thing and does another. He kept saying he was pro Second Amendment, yet he got a grade "F" from the NRA, and which is why you see a movement among some twenty-odd number of states to protect the rights of gun owners in state legislatures. Here in Montana, they have made it illegal for the feds to come in and take your guns away. It's all part of "states rights".

All those guns on Obama's list are protected in Montana.

I'm glad you didn't break!!

My heat bill for the fuel oil has been averaging around 60-70 a month this winter, and I've kept it at 68. I keep the house wide open in the summer.

The biggest cost is the fuel oil, which has kept pace with the fuel price at the local gas pump. When gas was $4.00, furnace fuel oil at the time was about $3.55 a gallon. I've got two 1500 gallon fuel tanks.

I don't and here's one example why:

You're not really saving money if you're buying one of those funny looking lightbulbs. If you drop and break one of those things or it finally burns out, you have to call in a Hazardous Materials disposal team. That can be pretty expensive.

Another example. Electric and hybrid cars are unavailable where I am.

All those others are merely lifestyle choices. Doesn't have anything to do with saving money. You're not really saving a whole lot of money if you lower your heat to 68 or raise it to 74. The furnace is still burning electricity even if it's not running. It's just not as much, but it's still running.

Not likely. There's currently a high pressure system over central New York. Skies across the state range from clear to partly cloudy.

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I guess I am an informed reader, more specifically an informed news reader. I read everything from the New York Times on the left to the Washington Times on the right. I frequent sites from Huffington Post on the left to Townhall.com on the right. My interests are politics and science (which includes tracking the weather).

You have every right to pursue your passions and beliefs. Don't let the next person keep you down or shut you up.

Specifically, why should I believe information from a 5 year old article?

Right now, every bit of information out there concerning global warming is nothing more than a "theory".

AL Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" is one such theory, and the connection to the sunspot cycles is another that has been revoling around for more than a decade in the scientific world.

So, no, I don't buy into it if the National Geographic says it exists, or when Newsweek published an article 30 years ago saying it exists.

I tend to believe the theory of the sunspot cycle. The hypothesis that the sunspots are cyclical and the weather patterns ever since man has begun cataloging the weather, are cyclical are evidence enough that both are in a revolving and turning cycle.

When the Newsweek article come out in 1979, we were at a sunspot maximum and earth temperatures rose. Now we're at a minimum, and places like London, England that don't typically see a whole lot of snow, got a lot of snow this past winter. Even Rome, Italy saw an unusual amount of snow. Here in the US, New Orleans had snow for the first time in decades, and places like Raleigh and Charlotte, NC received snow for the first time in a long time, while out in the heavens, the sunspot number is at a minimum.

I've read recent studies that the rise and fall of the earth's temperature has more to do with the sunspot cycles than anything man has ever created.

FWIW, I ain't changing my lifestyle for anyone, even Al Gore. I ain't buying those curly-Q light bulbs, I ain't turning my computer off at night, I ain't turning my thermostat down, I ain't buying some of Al Gore's carbon credits, and I ain't driving a hybrid.

There is a growing number of scientists and climatologists who have spoken out about the "myth" or the "hoax" of global warming. Last I heard there were 695 just in this country, and over 2000 worldwide.

That National Geographic article linked here is over 5 years old.

High school band director.

Excommunication in the literal sense is the Church cleansing itself of sin, thus remaining pure.

Once a person has been excommunicated, they can actually rejoin the Church through Confession, because through that process, they have come to realize what they had done was against the teachings of the Church.

The last thing any Church (pick your denomination) wants to do is turn people away.

Excommunicating is not judging.

When you're forcing me and your neighbors to pay your health care bill, you're being personally irresponsible. That's what "socialized medicine" is: me and everyone around you paying for your health care.

Rush can chain smoke his cigars and eat fatty foods for all I care, at least he's up front about the fact that he doesn't want you or I to pay for his health care bills.

While Obama has spent more in 50 days than all 43 presidents before him combined.