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“Ask yourself what he inherited from Clinton.”
Let’s see…
-full employment
-balanced budget (fixed the Reagan deficits)
-thirty year bond done
Ask the ‘man in the street’ if he’s better off today than he was in 1999.
BTW, Clinton DID try to deal w OBL, he launched a cruise missile strike into Afghanistan that missed him by an hour. Do you think there would have been support here or elsewhere for a full-fledged invasion of Afghanistan just after the Russians were booted out?
p.s. Rob…that wasn’t my quote, it was the title to the UN Report on Climate change.
I think a better question is, why you don’t care about climate change or really anything as you suggest above.
I know you think you’re so cool for not caring about anything and that people here have made you out to be a hero because of it, but I just think you’re quite sad (as in depressed) and need help with therapy, medication or a combination of the 2.
Not caring about anything is the first sign of depression.
Re Climate Change & scientific opinion:
I had a longish conversation with a fellow alum of my old college who is now an Oceanography professor at an event a few months back.
She said that man-made climate change is still open to legitimate debate, but a large majority of scientists believes it is happening. Her own view is that it is very much man-made & that rising sea levels will be the most important consequence.
For some reason the scientists who most vehmently to disagree with man made climate change often seem to be meteorologists.
Of course even if one believes in man made climate change, there is the question of the utility of making dramatic changes at this point. In other words, if teh trade off turns out to be large scale economic contraction now for relatively small changes in climate later is it worth it? Could anything material now realtistically be done anyway?
I am not a scientist (of course!). But the science is only the starting point for the policy debate anyway.
“Ask yourself what he inherited from Clinton.”
Let’s see…
-full employment
-balanced budget (fixed the Reagan deficits)
-thirty year bond done
Ask the ‘man in the street’ if he’s better off today than he was in 1999.
BTW, Clinton DID try to deal w OBL, he launched a cruise missile strike into Afghanistan that missed him by an hour. Do you think there would have been support here or elsewhere for a full-fledged invasion of Afghanistan just after the Russians were booted out?
“349 brownstoner 350 asshathill”
Looks like I’m the swing vote!!
p.s. Rob…that wasn’t my quote, it was the title to the UN Report on Climate change.
I think a better question is, why you don’t care about climate change or really anything as you suggest above.
I know you think you’re so cool for not caring about anything and that people here have made you out to be a hero because of it, but I just think you’re quite sad (as in depressed) and need help with therapy, medication or a combination of the 2.
Not caring about anything is the first sign of depression.
349 brownstoner 350 asshathill
wake me up when the whole “save the planet” phase is over, please.
*rob*
all check your email
“uh, youre gay. why do you care about global warming!?”
Ok, that might be the most bizarre statement of the week, and that is saying something this week!
I’ve looked at both sides, Legion and to be honest…the more I hear the other side, the more firmly I know that I believe in my side.
Let’s just leave it. I don’t agree with you at all. On any of your points here today.
And that’s OK!
I’m not saying I’m right, I’m saying this is my opinion.
Re Climate Change & scientific opinion:
I had a longish conversation with a fellow alum of my old college who is now an Oceanography professor at an event a few months back.
She said that man-made climate change is still open to legitimate debate, but a large majority of scientists believes it is happening. Her own view is that it is very much man-made & that rising sea levels will be the most important consequence.
For some reason the scientists who most vehmently to disagree with man made climate change often seem to be meteorologists.
Of course even if one believes in man made climate change, there is the question of the utility of making dramatic changes at this point. In other words, if teh trade off turns out to be large scale economic contraction now for relatively small changes in climate later is it worth it? Could anything material now realtistically be done anyway?
I am not a scientist (of course!). But the science is only the starting point for the policy debate anyway.