A TRIP TO ALASKA

As a taxpayer I'm outraged when I hear about trips--think mini vacations-- that our elected officials take.

Case in point. Senators McCain, Collins, Clinton and Graham all went to Alaska to talk to residents and 'study' the effects of global warming! They went to Barrow, Alaska, the northern-most city in America to confirm that, yes, global warming is REAL!

'I don't think there is any doubt left for anyone who actually looks at the science,' Clinton said. 'There are still some holdouts, but they are fighting a losing battle. The science is overwhelming, but what is deeply concerning is that climate change is accelerating.'

Count me as one of those 'holdouts.' I just don't believe in global warming, just like I don't believe that the universe was the result of some random explosion. Just like I don't believe that I was once a tadpole, or a monkey or a caveman. Just like I don't believe that animals species and cells and atoms are all just one big fat accident.

All of it is ridiculous.

The stuff I read tells me that there are just as many scientists that believe what I believe. I read about and can find just as many informed scientists that can point to evidence that shows that the earth is, in fact, getting cooler. The planet was actually much warmer about a 100 years ago than it is today.

Those are facts. Give me facts. Don't give me hyperbole and rhetoric and hysteria.

And while you're giving me the facts, please tell me how much of my taxpayer money was wasted on this day trip for four independently wealthy United States Senators.