it occurs to me as i watch hillary become more and more desperate, that i kinda gotta give props to mitt ‘the mormon marauder’ romney for bowing out gracefully for the sake of his party.
hillary clinton, by contrast, is becoming a poison pill — whether she hacks her way to the nomination or suffers a defeat at the convention, her antics are sure to turn off huge swaths of the party faithful, and will drive down voter turn out enough that any republican could win even without rigging electronic ballot machines.
so we all know that the people opposed to the idea that human activity is to blame for climate change are only opposed to the idea because they don’t want to be inconvenienced by the changes in human behavior that would be necessary to avert calamity should that idea be definitively proven.
as proof of this, simply listen long enough to any person opposed to carbon reduction, and eventually they will say that they don’t want to have quit driving an suv.
well, a case for this can surely be made in that massive upheavals in the fuel supply will unfairly negatively on the poor, who can scarcely afford cars as it is, and will be mostly affected by job losses, etc.
and the fact that the kyoto protocol exempts china who will soon far surpass america as the number one polluter is a fact that should dampen the party quickly
but to deny the mountain of evidence that global warming exists and is most likely caused by human activity is counter-productive.
to wit, if it turns out that global warming is not caused by carbon-based fuels, and we have successfully converted over to other, cleaner sources of energy, then we will have a cleaner earth, darn. alternately, if global warming is indeed caused by the use of carbon-based fuels, and we have done nothing, we will have face the consequences in the full knowledge that we did nothing to prevent it, and that feeling of shame will probably include the guilt for all sort of ills.
so can we please just quit kidding ourselves and start working toward a cleaner safer world, one in which our entire economy is enslaved to the finite supply of underground petroleum?
just a thought.
The first U.S. surgeon general appointed by President George W. Bush accused the administration on Tuesday of political interference and muzzling him on key issues like embryonic stem cell research.
as boring as it sounds, a democracy thrives when all possible ideas are evaluated, tyranny thrives when openness is quashed.
freedom of speech and free-thinking are at the very core of the American dream and is the defining ideal behind the American can-do attitude and is precisely what makes it possible for ordinary people to do extraordinary things and become successful
the free market is underpinned by the notion of parimutuel betting that dictates that the best ideas will succeed — closing the door to new ideas will eventually choke and kill the free market.
how ironic that conservatives want to do exactly that.
link via dvorak uncensored