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This is typical liberal mentality. We will throw up roadblocks, but we won't actually do anything to stop the problem..... What are you talking about? I never said anything about giving up on anything. Sure, planting trees is a great idea in those areas that have already been clear cut. But that doesn't mean that we're supposed to continue to clear cut. Do you have any idea how many euphemisms that the Bush administration has for logging? I think it's close to 30! Conservation and prevention is not "throwing your hands in the air".

There's always the scarier position. Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt: "My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns." -- James G. Watt, The Washington Post, May 24, 1981 "We will mine more, drill more, cut more timber." Or Ann Coulter: "The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that's the Biblical view."

You're right. I don't "listen" to Rush. I tune in his show a couple of times a week to see what the current talking points are but I don't stay long. Between his mental masturbation exercises and the relentless slew of commercials I can't stand it for very long. But he's not NEWS. He's entertainment for those who find entertainment in the verbal mycomium that spews forth from his bile (and oxycontin) laden gullett. He, along with Hannity, O'Reilly, Savage (and Coulter) and the rest of the hate mongering bunch don't have the intellectual capacity to debate issues. So they sling hate, accept caller's questions, cut them off and mute them, change their caller's argument so they can smack the straw man down, invoke the troops and God in their final rant whilst demonizing terms like "liberal" and then go to another commercial. It's sad and it's a complete waste of time for anyone who has the least bit of logical capacity. But again, I don't blame him too much. He's in it for the money. It's his listeners who insist that he's insightful that scare me.

People "pigeon hole" you based on your choice of words. Constantly throwing around "dems" and "libs" along with other derogatory "lefty" comments and then combining those with "Dem wants Bush murdered" and "calling for the assasination of..." when you know that neither of those statements is accurate...well I'd have to say you bring it on yourself. Here's what that idiot said when he was praising Schumer. "The man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who will put a bullet between the president's eyes if he could get away with it. The toughest senator, the best representative. A great, great member of the Congress of the United States." Very poor choice of words? Yes. Wrong? Yes. Calling for the assasination of someone? No.

Wow, lots of posts that deserve replies. Others are not so worthy of the effort. First, I have no idea why anyone would completely dismiss 928 scientific studies in favor of public statements from a few scientists who disagree. Especially when I've seen first hand how logic can be bastardized by an influx of corporate cash. (don't get me started on the biosolids issue) Secondly, Rush Limbaugh is a loud mouthed idiot who gets paid to be a loud mouthed idiot. No one has said anything about the extinction of the human species. Third, I agree that the earth will recover from the mess that the humans have caused and I agree that the aliens will probably indeed go "what the fuck happened here"? Fourth, yes. Earth cooling and warming is cyclical over millions of years. What is being asserted is that humans, through their consumption of millions of years worth of fossile fuel material over a couple hundred years have caused a steep upward trend in the warming cycle. I don't see how anyone can compare a gerbile population to one which spawned an industrial revolution. All we have to do is look at the facts. Parts of glaciers which haven't seen the light of day for millions of years are pouring into the ocean at a rate that is ten times faster than it was a decade ago. The gulf stream IS slowing down. Coral is dying worldwide at an alarming rate due to ocean temp rise. Indigeneous populations in the arctic are witnessing thunderstorms but they don't know what to call them because their ancestors never needed a word for them. The list goes on. And lastly, those lazy people who "just want grant money" aren't "replanting" rainforests because they're still fighting to stop DEforestation AND they know you can't replace the rainforest! Replanting, like what's done in the forestry industry typically results in a monoculture forest which is incapable of sustaining the ecological diversity that the original old growth sustained. It's like clearing thousands of items gourmet market and replacing every item with Wonder bread and bologna. What's the problem? It's still food right?

I don't know anyone who thinks Robertson is anything but a religious kook. But I really don't care much what he says because he isn't a public official. I care. Besides his network he broadcasts on one of the "big three". His political following are responsible for at least 2/3 of those who think that Bush is doing a good job. His followers vote, they think a holy war is okidoke, they think that God gave us natural resources so we should use them up, and that after we fuck up the earth they're going to be leaving this world and their clothes behind with us "sinners". Hitler didn't become Chancellor until 1933 but he enjoyed about a decade of influence prior to that. I don't remember who said it but "history doesn't repeat itself but it sure does rhyme". I don't know about anyone of you folks but I'd just as soon leave the rhyming to the books in the GWB presidential library (sorry, but it's sooooooo easy)

If ignorance is bliss 'ol Clint's gotta be one happy idiot. Nothing like celebrating a mistake!!! "YeeeHaaaa" is not a sound foreign policy!

You've touched on where my problem is with the media. They're getting more into the entertainment business than the news business. The CoulterLimbaughHannitySavageFranken's have no place being interviewed on news programming in my opinion. I can't blame the parent companies though because it makes them more money, and that's what the game is all about. But we're all dumber for it.

She sure gets more valuable air time than ummm.....what's his name again? Nice that you don't hold elected officials to a higher standard of conduct than a political commentator. If Schumer hadn't publically condemend the statement then I would have had a problem with it. Hevesi screwed up. That was a stupid thing to say and he should apologize for letting his emotions guide his tounge. Hell, fine him. Fire him. I don't care. But regarding Coulter, for whatever reason, she gets a LOT of airtime on prime time news programming in in the papers. I'd certainly call her much more influential than the NY comptroller. Actually I'd call her a loudmouthed, ignorant, hateful bigot who doesn't deserve to be given the time of day, much less a forum...but that's probably understood.

She sure gets more valuable air time than ummm.....what's his name again?

There's quite a bit of methane trapped under the permafrost peat bogs of North America, Europe and Russia. Thaw that out and you've just released a slug of greenhouse gas that might explain such a rapid temperature rise. It's considered a positive feedback response to global warming. My question is not if it will happen, but will it happen before or after the Gulf Stream shuts down. Maybe we should start up an "Erect Nipples Futures Market" to see where the consensus is.

It would sound a lot like Ann Coulter saying that someone should put rat poison in Justice Steven's creme brulee. You folks were outraged about that one right?

There is no debate about whether or not human activity is causing the earth to warm. Even Bush admits it but he just doesn't want to talk about it. 928 scientific papers were studied by the National Academy of Sciences. Not ONE paper disagreed with the assertion that we're major contributors to the warming trend. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

i'm sure the thousands and dead and wounded soldiers and civilians share your view This isn't going to help much either. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5037124.stm

Don't you know you're not supposed to post this? Sounds awfully liberal if you ask me. Where's the good news? I know, let's talk about how well things are going in Afghanistan. Hmmm......nevermind.

Thanks a LOT! Now every time I hear Hastert's name I'm going to get this mental image of his "ohh face"! Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Yo, weather boy. (I have no idea why I'm even bothering to post this) but water vapor in the air? What kind of air holds more water? Riiiiiiiight! WARM AIR. So if you WARM the air it can hold more WATER VAPOR. Wow, imagine that. That's why you get those pretty white fluffy clouds in the summer time. Sorry for the tone but this is just a waste of time.

Can't do it now. Gotta run. See my edit above. But just as a parting guess, I'm willing to bet that somewhere in the contract there's a clause about negating contracts due to some sort of fraud or abuse. If not then our government is more fucked than I think it is.

Go ahead and clarify then. You obviously know that I'm referring to the company who's been busted and fined numerous time for overbilling as well as admitting to defrauding the taxpayer back when Cheney was running it. Let me guess, "no one else is qualified to handle such a contract so we had to go with Halliburton". Further edit: I've gotta run to go help set up for a boogie this weekend but I can't leave without asking folks to justify hiring a company who, in addition to what I posted above, has admitted to bribery in Nigeria, bribery in Kuwait, sold oil production materials to IRAQ back in the 90's, used their Cayman loophole to broker a deal with IRAN two years ago (Iran pulled out of that one for security reasons), and has been caught price gouging on just about every job they've done for us. Gotta go! Blue skies or great gps spots this weekend!!!

More perspective on the incident. Sounds like he was solo. http://www.everestnews.com/everest2006/sharpeverest05172006.htm

I'll go by the emoticon and assume that you're not serious. Hard to tell sometimes.

The meaning of life is what you what you make of yours. Hope this is a short paper

I read about one mental game that one climber used to keep himself moving at that altitude. He'd make himself take one step every fifteen breaths. If he didn't get that step in he'd have to take two by the time he got to twenty breaths or three steps by thirty breaths. It's a different world up there.

One very effective way is to send your CEO off to work in the Executive branch of the Federal Government. That seems to cut through that pesky red tape formality called "bidding".

I really don't know if it was an illegal search or not. My understanding is that it hadn't ever been done before. And it's not just Hastert, Frist and DeLay are pretty pissed as are a bunch of other Republicans as well as some Democrats. The funniest thing would be if it turned out that the Patriot Act gave the authority for this search. I think I'd wet myself if that were the case Regardless, what do you want to bet that the Congressional staffers were cleaning out all of the offices and computers yesterday