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intheflow

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15. True.

Reply to Odin2005 (Reply #8)

Sun Apr 15, 2012, 12:01 PM

Apr 2012

Had a conversation once with a conservative who said global warming was a hoax created by Al Gore. When I said it was presented to congress by NASA, he didn't know that they had anything to do with weather satellites. Cultural illiteracy is a pitiful thing.

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