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Have a nice cup of RWG eggnog and relax, Ken....

I hope everyone's prepared to live with it until next Spring!

What Christmas theme?

Let's remain polite and cease this egg-throwing contest... You seem to have forgotten that we have a member here who's come to us with an egg problem, and all you can do is to turn the subject into some kind of half-baked omelette with your raw humor and cheesy jokes....

Your assessment of the situation is a bit eggjazzerated.

The Egg Doctor is.... IN

Relative to where I am, that would be upside-down.

Stop trying to egg us on, C-Stone! You're really hard-boiled: even if they crack you up, eggs are no laughing matter... How do you expect offshore to feel confident enough to open up and share with thread-poachers like you turning everything into derision?

Ah, your eggs are feeling poorly, are they?

You seem to be harboring ambivalent feelings towards eggs. We all come from them, you know. Have you ever thought of talking about this with a qualified professional?

Recent advances in E8 mathematics, Lie group calculation and theoretical physics would not exclude this possibility: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtm.../scisurf114.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main....ecpattern19.xml

So you people are saying that Easter comes before Christmas this year? Or what... Just the bear facts, please: we don't want to add to this mess.

It's not like I was deliberately trying to add to this junkheap of a thread!

Perhaps, but it should be clear that my intentions were good.

I was done with this thread months ago. Don't count on me add to this mess.

Hell, the least Bernie's Lounge could have done would have been to offer the poor guy a bucket or two of draft beer. Where's the Christmas Spirit in Anchorage?

Bah! Humbug!!

It all depends on who you read, how they interpret the stats and the spin they put on the criteria. It's no problem finding information which contradicts yours: "Further complicating the debate over the Kyoto Protocol is the fact that CO2 emissions growth in the US was far ahead of that of the EU-15 from 1990-2000, but from 2000-2004, America's rate of growth in CO2 emissions was eight percentage points lower than from 1995-2000, while the EU-15 saw an increase of 2.3 points. From 2000-2004, the United States' CO2 emissions growth rate was 2.1%, compared to the EU-15's 4.5%. That happened while the US economy was expanding 38% faster than the economies of the EU-15 while experiencing population growth at twice the rate of the EU-15.[96] This naturally has led to questions and debate about the merits of a mandatory emissions cap approach (as currently adopted under Kyoto) versus a voluntary approach to emissions reduction (as adopted by the United States). As of year-end 2006, the United Kingdom and Sweden were the only EU countries on pace to meet their Kyoto emissions commitments by 2010. While UN statistics indicate that, as a group, the 36 Kyoto signatory countries can meet the 5% reduction target by 2012, most of the progress in greenhouse gas reduction has come from the stark decline in Eastern European countries' emissions after the fall of communism in the 1990s." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol I myself live in the EU, and from my ring-side seat, I can report that it's the greatest thing since the former Soviet Union....not. In many ways, it's even worse. Even Dani is happy (for once) that Norway didn't get involved with these losers.... As for any credibility in the reports coming Brussels or UN agencies (such as the above-cited unfccc report, lots of luck.... Has anyone outside of piratezeus actually looked at it? There are so many footnotes, subtexts, subclauses and asterics that you get the feeling that the 'information' it contains was obtained under torture. If it looks like horsepoo and smells like horsepoo....

Impressive. Link? Meanwhile, back at Reality Ranch: "...Even with that, however, the treaty has still fallen short of its avowed intentions. Those Annex 1 countries that ratified the accord only managed to reduce their gas emissions by three percent from 1990-2000 (in real terms their emissions actually increased by 8 percent, although that figure was offset by a sharp decrease in emissions from the collapsing economies of the former Soviet Union). According to the U.N., the world's major industrialized nations are now severely off-target, with experts predicting a 10 percent rise in 1990 greenhouse gas emissions by 2010 rather than the hoped for 5.2 percent reduction. Even in the European Union, where advocacy of Kyoto is at its strongest, results are poor. Sweden, France, Germany and the UK are just about on track to achieve the 8 percent reduction to which the EU committed itself in the Protocol. Other EU nations such as Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy, however, are well behind, with the result that by 2004 the EU as a whole had only made a collective reduction of 0.9 percent of emissions. Devices such as carbon trading have slightly improved the picture. Given that from the outset the accord was criticized by environmental groups for setting its greenhouse gas reduction targets way too low, however, the fact that even the limited targets it did impose are now unlikely to be met suggest that, while not an absolute failure, the Kyoto Protocol is still far from being a success. http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/0...kyoto.protocol/

Maybe it's a new AR concept...?

He's also offering genuine oil paintings of genuine nude women - and men (if you go that way). One-stop shopping. Sure beats Josh and Trusty.... Alzo: Rado used to be an exclusively Swiss house located in Lengnau. Not a huge operation (500,000 units per year, staff of 300) but genuinely Swiss-made, by genuine Swissers. They became part of the Swatch Group in the late 90s. Have they since outsourced some or all of the production to China? I don't know - maybe someone here does. Anyway, you're just funnin' with us, right jfreeman? 420

Indeed, FasTTaP: Brice Hortefeux has been deporting all incoming foreign email.

It's partly Norway's fault: they refused to let the U.S. use your secret weapon: Lutefisk All of Iraq would have folded in a week. :cc_surrender:

WOOOOoooooooo!

and I am the ghost of Christmas past...