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Hello, name is Roger Smith. I am old, and have been on this earth for several decades. I lived during a very cold period of human history from 1945 until the late 1970s where I truly believed that we may be headed for another ice age. It was miserably cold during those years, and when it finally started warming again, I started an organization called Citizens for a Warmer Climate (CWC) (not really, but I have thought about doing so many times!) so that NO ONE WOULD FORGET those cold, miserable, incredibly crappy years. I am a skeptic because I have been conned in the past by seemingly good people who meant well. I guess it is just the nature of being old, and being from Missouri. Please do not take any offense to it. I respect your belief, and when it comes down to it, I wouldn't bet my life on any theory including the ones that I believe in!

Favorite "quotes":

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as you please." (Mark Twain)

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." (Mark Twain)

"Never before in human history has so much been said, by so few, for so little a reason." (Winston Churchill misquote)

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." (Mark Twain)

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." (Mark Twain)

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." (Mark Twain)

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." (Mark Twain)

"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption." (Mark Twain)