About 10 years ago I saw video of a 1000 meter asteroid skipping off the atmosphere in upper Alberta Canada. It is a damn scarey thing. How it was not pulled into the earth is quite simply beyond me.

As far as Ted Haggert, I cannot speak for the man outside of what I would say to anyone who is caught in this type of trouble. That is there is forgiveness. It is this type of thing that Jesus died for. When He proclaimed forgiveness from the cross, it was then sealed for all time, that His sacrifice would be used to atone for all mankind for the rest of time. No matter what the sin is.

I have met Ted Haggert, and I believe that he is a good man. Just because a man struggles doesn’t make him hypocritical. Ted has/had done alot of very good things in Colorado. Even set up prayer teams to work in conjunction with the police at crime scenes. Just incase witnesses need prayer or counselling. They were even given crime scene passes to be there. The police got to a point where they wanted these people around when they talked to witnesses. – Lorica

CZ, I’ll thank you not to insult rats by comparing us to Gore.

And if it’s not occuring at all, and the whole thing is just a scare campaign aimed at hobbling free enterprise, where does that place it? Because right now, that’s looking a lot more probable.

I give him credit for doing pretty much everything he could reasonably do to not be a hypocrite.

Clearly, you’ve heeded the last boarding call and pushed back from the gate of reality, ME. Using more power in a month than most people do in a year is “everything he could reasonably do”??? What nonsense. For starters, look at what Bush has done at the Crawford ranch. He’s walking the walk, while Gore’s done nothing to cut back on his extravagant, wasteful lifestyle. Yes, he bought stock in his own company. That saves nothing. But, like most limousine liberals, what he preaches is for us, not for the elites. So I’ll tell you what. YOU can go turn your thermostat down to 50 in the winter and wash your clothes in the nearest creek. I’ll keep my SUV, thank you very much.

Now this is called a smackdown: Goldman Sachs has been one of the most aggressive firms on Wall Street about taking action on climate change; the company sends its bankers home at night in hybrid limousines. –The New York Times,…

BUT…those of us Neocons who are in the vast right wing conspiracy will gladly shine the spotlight on that ‘rat in the corner.

I just love when someone blows the whistle on the whistleblower!

Probability of event occuring X the amount of destruction caused (which itself is a metric that would involve how long it would take to complete “desctruction”) is probably how they calculated this (roughly, estimating, and probably just in their heads)

But basically, if global warming is a hundred times more likely to occur than the killer asteroid, then it could be labelled #1.

This has been one more installment of “useless answers to rhetorical questions.”

It’s a bit easy to beat up on Al regarding the hypocrisy thing though…given the man’s crusade, it’s almost impossible to not be a hypocrite in some way, and I’m sure Al knows this. I give him credit for doing pretty much everything he could reasonably do to not be a hypocrite. He also doesn’t demand that anyone reduce their carbon footprint to 0, but rather that they do what they can to reduce it. So I guess it’s not really hypocrisy as much as irony.

Ted Haggard…now there’s a hypocrite if I’ve ever seen one.

I thought Bruce Willis took care of that asteroid a few years back.

Mother Earth was really happy that me and my kids planted some flowers and tomatoes. But I only did it because I was greedy. I love them tomatoes and I like how flowers brighten up my environment. Too bad I had to drive to Home Depot to get some potting soil and stuff to keep the bugs off of my tomatoes….. oh the guilt.. NOT!