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Tue, 17 Aug 2004
Paranoia Watch #2
From the American Progress Action Fund:
POLITICS -- CONTROLLING EXPOSURE: AP reports that the Bush campaign is
exerting more and more control
over exactly who President Bush interacts with in supposedly public
events on the campaign trail. Specifically, Bush-Cheney officials make
sure "dissenters and would-be hecklers are turned away." On several
occasions in recent weeks, citizens have been ejected from Bush events
simply "because they wore pro-Kerry T-shirts." The AP report follows
an earlier report from the AP which found that citizens had to sign
pledges of allegiance to the Republican
Party before they were allowed to hear Vice President Dick Cheney
speak. AP notes that "by contrast, most of Kerry's events are open to
the public."
Posted at 13:36 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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Go Kevin...
Cribbed in its entirety from Political Animal:
BUSH HATERS....Jonah Goldberg, in the middle of a post about Clinton
haters and the people who hate them, says this:
The Bush-haters who are just as extreme and nasty as the Clinton-haters were, and in many ways more so....
Tell you what, Jonah. As soon as the most popular liberal editorial
page in the country accuses George Bush of murdering one of his aides,
maybe I'll give your argument a hearing. And as soon as one of the
most influential liberal interest groups in the country starts
distributing hundreds of thousands of videos suggesting that George
Bush ran a coke ring out of Austin, then I'll really perk up. And when
Senate Democrats spend $70 million investigating the Valerie Plame
affair compared to the current $0 and end up bringing impeachment
charges against George Bush, then you'll have me. You'll really have
me.
But until then, sell it somewhere else. Michael Moore calling Bush a
liar and a moron just isn't in the same league as what your side did
to Bill Clinton, and nobody who was sentient during the 90s can find
the contrary suggestion anything but laughable.
Posted at 11:10 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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Global warming
Sorry about the lack of posts...
Interesting article in Science Daily today:
Existing technologies could stop the escalation of global warming for
50 years and work on implementing them can begin immediately,
according to an analysis by Princeton University scientists.
The scientists identified 15 technologies from wind, solar and nuclear
energy to conservation techniques that are ripe for large-scale use
and showed that each could solve a significant portion of the
problem. Their analysis, published in the Aug. 13 issue of Science,
indicates that many combinations of these 15 technologies could
prevent global emissions of greenhouse gasses from rising for the next
five decades.
The finding counters the common argument that a major new technology
needs to be developed before greenhouse gasses can be controlled, said
professors Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow, who conducted the study.
"It certainly explodes the idea that we need to do research for a long
time before getting started," said Pacala, a professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology and co-director with Socolow of Princeton's
Carbon Mitigation Initiative.
"If we decide to act, we will need to reduce carbon emissions across
the whole global economy," said Socolow, a professor of mechanical and
aerospace engineering. "Fortunately, we have the tools to do this,
especially if we think in terms of 50-year campaigns, not instant
solutions."
Although the current study did not examine the costs of scaling up
each of the 15 possible technologies, the authors point out that
implementing the measures would likely generate economic benefits,
including creating new industries, reducing the U.S. dependence on
foreign oil and lessening the need for other pollution-control
expenses associated with burning coal and other fossil fuels.
Posted at 10:46 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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