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Wed, 30 Jun 2004
Tour de Force
The Poor Man has done us all an enormous service.
Without further ado, an excerpt discussing Nicolas Kristof's latest column:
[...] Largely unexplored, however, is the issue of whether or not
Bush is a liar. Let's explore it:
He has lied about his time in the National Guard, and lied about his criminal history. He lied about his relationship with Ken Lay, he lied about who would benefit from his tax cuts, and he lied about stem cells. He lied about his visit to Bob Jones University, he lied about why he wouldn't meet with Log Cabin Republicans, and he lied about reading the EPA report on global warming. He lied about blaming the Clinton administration for the second intifada, he lies constantly about how he pays no attention to polls, he lied about how he loves New York, and he lied about moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. He lied about finding WMD in Iraq, he lied about making his decision to go to war, he lied about the CIA's dismissal of the yellowcake rumors, and he lied about the IAEA's assessment of Iraq's nuclear program. He lied about funding the fight against AIDS in Africa, he lied about when the recession started, and he lied about seeing the first plane hit the WTC. He lied about supporting the Patient Protection Act, and he lied about his deficit spending, and now my wrist hurts.
These are all lies, told by the President himself. This doesn't
include any distortions, half-truths, or exaggerations, or any lies
told by senior figures in the administration. These lies are big and
small. Together, these lies involve trillions of dollars and at least
tens of thousands of deaths, and Nicolas Kristof is terribly concerned
about sharp words and Michael Moore movies. It is indeed too bad that
the "political cesspool" is becoming polarized, but I don't think that
the solution to this is to shoot the messenger and agonize over
ever-finer definitions of falsehood. It shouldn't be this difficult to
get your priorities in order.
Posted at 17:34 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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RTK NET Releases 2002 Toxic Release Inventory Data
Washington, D.C., June 24, 2004 -- The Right-to-Know Network (RTK NET) published the 2002 Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data today, providing public access to important Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data on the release and transfer of toxic chemicals in the U.S. The 2002 data shows an overall increase of 5 percent in toxic releases -- the first year in which this measurement increased since 1997.
The TRI data is reported by individual facilities, which send their reports to the federal EPA every year. On RTK NET, users can search the data by geographic area, facility, industry, parent company, and offsite waste transfer data, to learn which toxic chemicals are present, and in what amounts, in their local communities, states, regions, and the entire nation.
For example, Motorola in Oak Hill released 16,000 lbs of Ozone, 17,422 lbs of Sulphuric Acid and 520 lbs of Nitric Acid into the air in 2002, among other bad things.
This is a great public service by the Right To Know folks.
Posted at 10:39 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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