They [environmental radicals and one-world socialists] have hijacked the once respectable environmental movement to espouse and put into place, by regulation and decree, their false vision of how man should live his life, by their tenets and values, their rules, limiting his free choice and limiting the marketplace to whatever products they deem socially acceptable according to their environmental norms.

If you haven't yet seen "The Great Global Warming Swindle" here is the best link I have to the introduction on the net:

The Great Global Warming Swindle

(The full length video has been removed due to copyright violations). Watch these first eight minutes and you won't want to shut it off!

(If the link is bad, do a Google search; you may find bits and pieces posted around the net: Search "The Great Global Warming Swindle")

NewsBusters has a story about a British judge who has ruled that Al Gore's film is a political propaganda piece and instructed that it not be shown in public schools without accompanying guidance on the parts that are untrue/mistated:
Judge Finds Nine Convenient Untruths in Gore's Film

Another great site for up-to-date global warming/climate change information: http://www.icecap.us/

As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, June 13, 2007

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04/30/07 -- Folks, a lot of very intelligent and great members are gone, banned or opting out, because they don't subscribe completely to the vision of our founder. Now that's fine; it's his site. But the way many were baited, bullied, kicked and vilified in most un-Christian ways by a group of about a half-dozen other members, many of whom are relative newcomers, is not becoming for a prominent conservative (or Christian) forum.

I feel most uncomfortable if the forum has degenerated into more of a one or two issue site almost to the exclusion of the opinions of other conservatives who do not share the fervor of those in charge but instead believe that the overall conservative agenda is being minimized. Instead, for myself, I join with others on here who would like the forum to be a community of generally like-minded people with some disagreements, as well as a political activism site.

Update, 04/11/08 -- Recently I've noticed less of a confrontational attitude on the forum and more of a cooperative one that acknowledges that we are faced with the likelihood of two presidential candidates whose visions for our country are at odds with our conservative principles. For the RINO Republican candidate, who is the lessor of the three evils (only partial hyperbole here), our job is to do our best to convince him of our concern for many of his incorrect positions (global warming, immigration, First Amendment rights, etc.) but support him on others such as winning the war in Iraq, support for the military, the need for conservative justices and continued tax cuts for economic growth. Secondarily, our task is to support conservative candidates for the House and Senate in the hope that we can slow the tide towards "progressive liberalism," another term for socialism. So, as a result, I'm withdrawing my self imposed semi-breather and will once again, to the best that I can, participate both with article contributions and financial support.

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My first assignment: The US Coast Guard Cutter Taney, now preserved at the Baltimore Maritime Museum, is the only surviving warship afloat today from the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. The Cutter also precipitated in the battles of the North Atlantic and Okinawa, and served as a mission and gunfire support ship in Vietnam

Coast Guard patrol boat in Vietnam similar to the one on which I served. Five and seven day patrols at sea in all weather conditions were common. The cutter carried a crew of thirteen plus a Vietnamese interpreter which made for very cramped quarters.

See how the Coast Guard operated in Vietnam at the thread linked below:

Vanity: Coast Guard WPB's and Navy PCF's in Division 11, An Thoi, Viet Nam