UN to take an advisory-neutral stance on global warming.
I don’t see that happening until there’s pork in the treetops.
In an interview with the Times of London, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, apologized for his organization’s handling of complaints about errors in its report.
He also apologized for describing as “voodoo science” an Indian Government report which challenged the IPCC’s claims about the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers.
But Dr Pachauri, 70, rejected calls for his resignation and insisted he would remain as chairman until after publication of the IPCC’s next report in 2014.
Denial gets you through a lot of tough realities…
He claimed he had the support of all the world’s governments and denied that, by remaining in post, he was undermining the IPCC’s chances of regaining credibility with the public.
“It is not correct to say there are people who don’t trust me,” he said.
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Lemur King's Folly 
Ah Company. I like to stay at a nearby hotel/motel when visiting just so I won’t be underfoot all the time. I always feel like I’m an Imposition when I’m in somebody else’s home and I’m relieved to get out of their hair. I guess that’s not an option for you though.
Good luck! Tell everybody Enas Yorl says “Hey!”
How about the Bates Motel?
OR you could remind them of the great new Medical system with the art I just emailed to you–or you could just steal it from my post.
What Enas said. With rare exceptions I haven’t stayed ‘with’ friends – even my oldest and closest ones – in years. I ALWAYS rent a hotel room to dump my shit and my book-shopping purchases (I always hit book stores wherever I go). A lot lf my friends do, too, when they visit me or others. It’s just waaaaay more relaxing to have a quiet fall-back position, for everyone involved.
LK – just remember – the world WILL turn. This will end….
Yeah, the working compromise seems to be that FiL is an avid reader and thus likes to read in quiet – away from the kids and if the grandparents want the kids, the kids love the trailer, too.
They took them tonight while we went to Cruel Wife’s favorite restaurant for her birthday dinner (the twelve-year anniversary of her 29th birthday, she says).
I ate baby animal and she had shrimp cakes. Baby animals taste so much better. It was rubbed in preserved lemon, cumin, coriander, and fennel – then the ribs were quick-charred. So tender you could eat with a fork.
Be grateful you don’t have my inlaws 😉