I can only imagine how conflicted you are, since you obviously have no grasp of reality.
What is 'killing' us is the arrogance, puffery, ignorance, selfishness, hatred, bias, bigotry and hubris that has set in and permeated our society.
Yours is just one more insipid example of conservatives vs. liberals - something that is destroying the greatness that once was America. Instead of attaching artificial labels to yourself that only serves to further divide our country, why not invest your energies in doing things that might unite the people of this great nation once again?
Global warming is a serious threat to this planet, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.
Al Gore's movie has been lauded by most of the respected scientific community as accurate, thoughtful and informative.
Liberals ideas of 'peace' are no more radical than conservatives' ideas of 'peace'. Just because you listen to the Hitleresque rantings and ravings of Rush Limbaugh instead of the whining of Al Franken doesn't mean your concepts are any better - or worse. We live in a country that embraces different political viewpoints, encourages freedom of thought, and provides citizens with the freedom to choose how they worship and how they conduct their lives.
What will 'kill' us first is the American way of life: sloth, greed, hate, prejudice, waste and this overwhelming need to be bigger and better than anybody else. We've become far too fat and sassy as we drive around in our gas-guzzling Hummers and SUVs, squandering 55% of the world's resources while representing only 5% of the global population. We Americans eat too much, waste too much natural energy, make too much money, and are content to fill our lives with trivial matters such as the Dallas Cowboys' latest 'win'; Britney Spears' newest troubles; the landscaping for our new $300,000 house; or the great-looking broad with the big boobs in Accounting.
We've become a decadent society, and - like all decadent societies before us - we will collapse under the weight of our own bloated self-importance. It's time we realized that we are only a tiny part of this great big wonderful world, a world that includes other human beings of other races, creeds and cultures; a world that includes a magnificient variety of plants and animals that help keep us alive; and a world that we were given responsibility of caring for instead of destroying as a result of our own gluttony. -RKO- 10/12/07
2007-10-12 05:11:56
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answered by -RKO- 7
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9 Errors to Inconvenient truth
1 Error: Mr. Gore asserted that a sea level rise of up to 20 feet would be casued by melting of ice sheets “in the near future”
JUDGE: “This is distinctly alarmist:, and will only occur after, and over, millennia.”
2 Error: Low-lying pacific atolls have already been evacuated.
JUDGE: There was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.
3 Error: The Gulf Stream, that warms up the Atlantic, would shut down.
JUDGE: It was “very unlikely” it would shut down in the future, though it might slow down
4: Error: Graphs showing a rise in CO2 and the rise in temperature over a period of 650,000 years showed “an exact fit.”
JUDGE: There was a connection, but “the two graphs do not establish what Mr. Gore asserts”.
5 Error: The disappearance of snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro was due to global warming.
JUDGE: It cannot be established that the recession of snows on Mt. Kilimanjaro is mainly attributed to human induced climate change.
6 Error: The drying up of Lake Chad is a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming.
JUDGE: Insufficient to establish the exact cause.
7 Error: Hurricane Katrina blamed on global warming
JUDGE: There was insufficient evidence to support that.
8 Error: Polar bears were being found that had actually drowned “swimming long distances-up to 60 miles-to find the ice”.
JUDGE: Only four polar bears have recently been found drowned, because of a storm.
9 Error: Coral reefs were bleaching because of global warming and other factors.
JUDGE: Separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from oter stresses, such as over-fishing and pollution, was difficult
The British newspapers are full of stories this morning about a High Court judge's criticisms of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth movie. See The Times, Daily Mail and Guardian.
Mr Justice Barton had been asked to rule on the film after the British Government had announced plans to have it distributed throughout the nation's schools.
Justice Barton found 'nine scientific errors' in the film and accused Mr Gore of "alarmism" and "exaggeration". Although he agreed that the film was "powerful, dramatically presented and highly professionally produced," he said that it was a political film and was so "one-sided" that it needed to be accompanied with other materials that provided pupils with balance if the Government was to continue with its plans to distribute it to schools.
The nine errors are summarised in the Daily Mail graphic that is reproduced on the right (click to enlarge).
Even the environment analyst of the BBC - which has been at the forefront of campaigning for action on climate change and was recently forced into cancelling a day of programmes dedicated to the subject - said the ruling would be "embarrassing" for Al Gore.
The Conservative Party's environment spokesman, Peter Ainsworth, has called upon the Government to prepare "a proper, up to-date, education pack about climate change - based on current evidence" and distribute that to schools, rather than the Al Gore movie.
2007-10-12 13:15:58
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answered by l_tone 2
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Let me remove the conflict for you......it will be Bush's insistence that we put "defense" missiles just outside of Russia. The SOB didn't hear of our treaty with Russia calling for the removal of missiles?
Bush is out to get us all killed and he is moving us rapidly to that place where other power countries will not stand for his cowboy ways....
There are you no longer conflicted?
2007-10-12 11:52:44
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answered by malter 5
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Liberal's idea of "peace"
2007-10-12 11:49:35
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answered by How Big is Your Govt Check 3
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Libs are destroying America every day.
2007-10-12 11:49:57
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answered by libs are traitors 1
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