| OT: Maybe better than a cup of coffee -to start the day [message #83060] |
Sat, 14 April 2007 07:50  |
emarenot
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Registered: June 2005
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orts itself of a supposed
> superiority while accomplishing nothing but strife and misery. It is the
> basic health and wealth of the free market that allows us even to consider
> such nonsense.
Don, you have known me for quite a while and I think you could say that
though I seem sorta' nuts sometimes, I'm definitely not a leftist. I also
believe in the free market. I also own guns (quite a few). I also believe
that the reason that the climate is changing is because there are too many
of *us* and we have chosen to use the cheapest fuels we can find to power
our industries. It's not the fuels that are evil, per se, it's the amount of
them necessary to keep the economic juggernaut in full swing. The economic
juggernaut is not just the US. It's global now, like it or not. We could do
some things that would be painful in the short run and beneficial in the
long run and keep our economy here afloat while we transition ot new energy
sources but we are not doing these things. Whether it would make much
difference if other parts of the pwrld don't do the same is certainly a
valid question, but since we are *free market* kinda' folks, if we did
develop new technologies, we could market them.
It's a bauble, an expensive indulgence that serves as a
> status symbol for the guilt-ridden. Read the Clancy book. It is not a
> political diatribe, it is a story of what could happen should these people
> gain power.
>
Hmmmm.......I don't feel guilt ridden at all. I just see things as I think
they are. I also don't think humans are inherently evil. Too many horses
will overgraze a pasture and turn it into a wasteland. Too many rats in an
enclosed space will result in all sorts of aberrant behaviour, finally
ending in some major *ratricide*.
>
>>As far as the 2nd Amendment . . . listen, guns don't kill people, it's the
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