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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (59270)	4/14/2008 10:06:47 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542207

going by the true meaning of the word, can you prove scientifically that there is 'hysteria' involved, as that is, afterall... hysteria Main Entry: hys·te·ria Pronunciation: \his-'ter-e-?, -'tir-\ Function: noun Etymology: New Latin, from English hysteric, adjective, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos, from hystera womb; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus Date: 1801 1 : a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions 2 : behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess .... or is the word used as it sounds like it is and is so often... for hyberbole to discredit someone as... neurotic. and at least is refreshing to see the word used directed at a man. that is rare. which i am sure you not unaware of. but then... maybe gore is just behaving like a... hysterical woman? and why is it hysterical? is there scientific proof that there is no foundation for warming, regardless of cause? is there any foundation for saying that gore exhibits any signs of neurosis or unmanageable fear? and i tend to say far right. or radical right. or fundamentalist right. shall i switch to ... do i need to alliterate? raskolly right sounds almost fun. hateful spiteful stupid and deranged right. how's that? ya never know when the 'loon' amongst you might turn out to be right about something. but y'all keep on with your supposedly non-insulting terms. i am sure there are plenty who will tee-hee-hee right along with you. you dismiss your own views as unimportant and perhaps misguided, not simply wrong, when you resort to such appellations for differing views. but regardless of the reason, there will be a change in the weather. there always has been and there always will be. i seem to recall... a mini-ice-age. not that i was alive then. so we plan or we pretend the world today is always as it was just yesterday. like 'ground hog day'. but i don't think you looney, bearbobcat. sorry you consider me to be such. reckon i will have to drag my battered ego up off the ground and go on, tho. i will say i find it pathetic that people need to resort to such terms and i reckon look at their own neighbors and say 'loon' when the person ain't ever done anyone any harm.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (59270)	4/14/2008 10:07:47 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542207

I think it is fair to say Al Gore is hysterical about global warming. Been there, done that. I had a long, long and unproductive discussion with John and others about that a while back. I argued that the hysterics of the movement were counterproductive, that a calmer, more rational presentation would be more effective. Don't want to revive that discussion, at least not participate in it if it occurs.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (59270)	4/15/2008 10:26:08 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 542207

I think it is fair to say Al Gore is hysterical about global warming. He has used the hysteria he has created nicely for his own benefit. I fully characterize him as a leading example of the looney left. It's one thing to say you disagree with it and to offer sound evidence against it, Bob. But it's another thing to call them names. You may recall that you have now called a broad swath of the scientific community and the Nobel Prize community, a part of the "looney left." One wonders when the act of doing so rebounds. What's the Austrialian tool, ah yes, the boomerang.