Round two coming up... Finally made it home Friday, feesh still shallow.

Before I retired, I ran lots of cattle and often dealt with cattle traders. I would buy cattle by the truckload from several states away who I had never met. I would tell them what kind of cattle I wanted, they would send me a truckload and unload them at my place and then send me a bill. I would pay them and order another load. Selling was often done on a hand shake. Had no idea of their religious beliefs and didn't really care. However, on occasion, I would go to the auction sale and see a couple of brothers who were deacons in their church, try to convince a small, usually elderly guy, to sell to them directly because they would pay more than the auction. Then lie to them about their estimated weight, what the market was, etc. They believed that in business, any trading tactics were fair and the seller should be aware. Their actions were all to common with the many of the self righteous, religious people I knew. Never understood the hypocrisy and thought less of them than those who never set foot in a church.

I will be there Friday night. I can bring some cokes.



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Good morning all

They also forgot to tell everyone about the length of the electrical cord needed for driving around town .

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Thanks for the offer but no sir, not interested in those.

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Proud of this team, way to go stars

"Not to mention every single research program is federally funded, or course they’ll find something because these scientists don’t want to lose their jobs."--yes, it's a global scam that involves thousands of scientists from a number of different scientific disciplines.

"Back in the 80's and even 90's it was all about global cooling"--there were some articles in the popular press about global cooling in the 1970s, but the majority of scientific papers were predicting warming. See figure below. Scientists were already concerned about greenhouse gasses in the 1800s, and wrote about the effects. From 1899:

"The general doctrine that the glacial periods may have been due to a change in the atmospheric content of carbon dioxide is not new. It was urged by Tyndall a half century ago and has been urged by others since. Recently it has been very effectively advocated by Dr. Arrhenius, who has taken a great step in advance of his predecessors in reducing his conclusions to definite quantitative terms deduced from observational data. [..] The functions of carbon dioxide. — By the investigations of Tyndall, Lecher and Pretner, Keller, Roentgen, and Arrhenius, it has been shown that the carbon dioxide and water vapor of the atmosphere have remarkable power of absorbing and temporarily retaining heat rays, while the oxygen, nitrogen, and argon of the atmosphere possess this power in a feeble degree only."

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