stolen from the interweb:

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.

A depression is when you lose your job.

A recovery is when brandon loses his job.

one of the root problems with this whole safe/unsafe is:  no one really defines "safe" and "unsafe"

In the aviation world, especially airworthiness certification, "safe" and "unsafe" are meaningless.  It's about being safe enough.  As in, acceptable level of safety.

we take risks every day, we do things that have potentially bad outcomes, but we try to manage the risk and reduce the probability of a bad outcome to an acceptable level.

Sure, there are people that don't think things through (the invincibility of youth comes to mine). 

how abou this one:

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

Niels Bohr

Dammit. Now I want ice cream.

To be fair, pretty much anything will make you want ice cream, right?   ;-)

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Not really funny.  More prophetic

   Imagine what the US could do with $113 billion (other than add to our debt).

probably the same as when congresscritters were salivating over the "peace dividend" in the 90's.

So is it the opinion of everyone on here that the climate, (if it is changing at all) is changing due to completely natural causes?

nope - not everyone.

of course Man has an influence. 

It’s broad daylight outside. How am I supposed to go to sleep?

watch some golf.