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a look back at Reagan`s environmental record;
http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2004/06/10/griscom-reagan/
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From: "leonard78sp(at)gmail.com"
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:56:32 -0700 (PDT)
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On Apr 22, 1:03 pm, "Forrest McGump"
wrote:
> "Harry Dope" wrote in message
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> news:480e07fb$0$20197$4c368faf(at)roadrunner.com...
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> a look back at Reagan`s environmental record
** Just because you fascists don`t like it,
does not mean that it was bad.
** Carter was grossly destructive and so was clinton.
Reagan had to undo some of Carter`s shit
then then Clinto reversed it again.
What do you know about "environment" - probably
nothing more than Gore and Pelosi`s fascist propaganda
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alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.gw-bush
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On Apr 22, 12:37 pm, "Forrest McGump"
wrote:
> "Hairy, Dumber than Bush, Dope" wrote in
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> "To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land
> instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in
> undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought
> by right to hand down to them."
> Seventh message to Congress, December 3, 1907 -Theodore Roosevelt (1858 -
> 1919)
** So what has that to do with the subject? --
absolutely nothing!!
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"Al Gore Has Created a Man-Made Disaster"
AFRICA and FAMINE will always be with us. But ethanol won`t help
matters there, or in other eternal poverty pockets. POPULATION
CONTROL (and "reduction") is the only answer. But that solution is
hampered by ignorance, poverty, religion, crooked rulers, tribal
enmities, poor land, and lack of natural resources.
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"Ethanol`s Failed Promise"
By Lester Brown and Jonathan Lewis
Op-Ed
Tuesday, April 22, 2008; A19
The willingness to try, fail and try again is the essence of
scientific progress. The same sometimes holds true for public policy.
It is in this spirit that today, Earth Day, we call upon Congress to
revisit recently enacted federal mandates requiring the diversion of
foodstuffs for production of biofuels. These "food-to-fuel" mandates
were meant to move America toward energy independence and mitigate
global climate change. But the evidence irrefutably demonstrates that
this policy is not delivering on either goal. In fact, it is causing
environmental harm and contributing to a growing global food crisis.
Food-to-fuel mandates were created for the right reasons. The hope of
using American-grown crops to fuel our cars seemed like a win-win-win
scenario: Our farmers would enjoy the benefit of crop-price stability.
Our national security would be enhanced by having a new domestic
energy source. Our environment would be protected by a cleaner fuel.
But the likelihood of these outcomes was never seriously tested, and
new evidence has shown that the justifications for these mandates were
inaccurate.
It is now abundantly clear that food-to-fuel mandates are leading to
increased environmental damage. First, producing ethanol requires huge
amounts of energy -- most of which comes from coal. Second, the
production process creates a number of hazardous byproducts, and some
production facilities are reportedly dumping these in local water
sources.
Third, food-to-fuel mandates are helping drive up the price of
agricultural staples, leading to significant changes in land use with
major environmental harm. Here in the United States, farmers are
pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening
fragile habitats. Increased agricultural production also means
increased fertilizer use. The National Academy of Sciences reported
last month that meeting the congressional food-to-fuel mandate by 2022
would lead to a 10 to 19 percent increase in the size of the Gulf of
Mexico`s "dead zone" -- an area so polluted by fertilizer runoff that
no aquatic life can survive there.
Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large
part by food-to-fuel mandates create incentives for global
deforestation, including in the Amazon basin. As Time magazine
reported this month, huge swaths of forest are being cleared for
agricultural development. The result is devastating: We lose an
ecological treasure and critical habitat for endangered species, as
well as the world`s largest "carbon sink." And when the forests are
cleared and the land plowed for farming, the carbon that had been
sequestered in the plants and soil is released. Princeton scholar Tim
Searchinger has modeled this impact and reports in Science magazine
that the net impact of the food-to-fuel push will be an increase in
global carbon emissions -- and thus a catalyst for climate change.
Meanwhile, the mandates are not reducing our dependence on foreign
oil. Last year, the United States burned about a quarter of its
national corn supply as fuel -- and this led to only a 1 percent
reduction in the country`s oil consumption.
Turning one-fourth of our corn into fuel is affecting global food
prices. U.S. food prices are rising at twice the rate of inflation,
hitting the pocketbooks of lower-income Americans and people living on
fixed incomes. Globally, the United Nations and other relief
organizations are facing gaping shortfalls as the cost of food
outpaces their ability to provide aid for the 800 million people who
lack food security. Deadly food riots have broken out in dozens of
nations in the past few months, most recently in Haiti and Egypt.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick warns of a global food emergency.
The immediate necessary step is a major increase in global food aid.
But beyond that, America must stop contributing to food price
inflation through mandates that force us to use food to feed our cars
instead of to feed people.
Taking these together -- the environmental damage, the human pain of
food price inflation, the failure to reduce our dependence on oil --
it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that food-to-fuel mandates
have failed. Congress took a big chance on biofuels that,
unfortunately, has not worked out. Now, in the spirit of progress, let
us learn the appropriate lessons from this setback, and let us act
quickly to mitigate the damage and set upon a new course that holds
greater promise for meeting the challenges ahead.
[Lester Brown is founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute.
Jonathan Lewis is a climate specialist and lawyer with the Clean Air
Task Force.]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102555.html
Title: Leave Them Kids Alone
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:55:15 +0000
Author: hills4neil
Yes, it seems like I am on a movie and music kick. I can’t help it, they just pop into my head.
Today’s rant is deeply connected to the mere fact that I AM A MOM. What is our world coming to when moms can be charged for making sure our kids get on the bus safely. Seriously! I am not joking. Apparently, in some places, it’s against the law to routinely watch another person’s child, unrelated of course, for longer than a four week stretch (and I don’t mean 24/7). So this mom, Francie, in Michigan is facing fine and/or jail time for being a good neighbor? Honestly, why am I not that surprised? Granted, I realize this is in Michigan, but Maryland is far more liberal (oh and this has liberal written all over it). Do you see where I’m going with this? How long will it be before I’m turned in for running a brothel or something, just because I host a mom’s group at my house? Speaking of, who would file a complaint against this mom, for running an “illegal day care?” If I were Francie, I’d be taking names.
To me, this is just another example of how the government feels like it’s a better parent than actual parents. I’m serious. Politicians feel like we’re too stupid to figure out parenthood on our own. That’s also why liberals can’t stand stay at home moms. Why should you raise your own kids? The nanny state can do that for you. Kudos to Rep. Brian Calley, R-Portland (MI), for stepping up to the plate and attempting to change the idiotic law that would seek to punish good citizens for being good neighbors. Maybe we should all write him a note of encouragement for being a stand up guy.
Did you guys see this? It seems that pepping up the crowd and intimidating your opponents with scripture is also illegal, and apparently controversial. Forget freedom of speech or freedom or expression…nope, clearly these cheerleaders are attempting to convert the football stadium to Christianity. In fact, it’s a plot to indoctrinate the whole nation by using peppy girls in short skirts to sell the message of Christ’s love. Have these people ever heard of an extreme? Can there not be any mention of God at all anymore? A sign at a pep rally, clearly meant for good, is not violating the separation of church and state (which is an entire other blog post). I promise that Obama himself is not going to show up a Lakeview Fort Oglethope game and declare that all people must profess Christianity or else. Really, that’s just laughable. 
These people who make it a point in life to complain about every mention or display of anything closely resembling a faith in God are afraid. Of what, I have no idea. But really, they have to be. Why else would even the smallest gesture send them into a tailspin? What is so bad about Timothy 1:7? “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline.” I’m thinking if I were the mom of a highschooler (and relatively soon, I will be), I’d like for them to possess those attributes. I don’t know many teenagers that do. Then again, maybe that’s the problem.
Of course, if it were up to our government to raise our kids, they’d all end up like this. “Um, Um, Um Barack Hussein Obama”…kind of catchy actually. Do you see now why we need to wake up? Moms, please, for the love of your children, get involved. Start local and go deep!
More on: http://pvrc.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/leave-them-kids-alone/
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