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Originally posted by: ZeGermans
You see liberals are the ones that really hate poor people. As a wall street journal columnist I
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Originally posted by: ZeGermans
You see liberals are the ones that really hate poor people. As a wall street journal columnist I
Originally posted by: dphantom
Damn the poor! We have to save the world!
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Oh God, I how have a whole army of eco-imperialists under my bed. Whatever am I going to do. I'm so scared.
Originally posted by: ericlp
Must be PJ himself or his brother. It's getting old tho...
Not gonna get sucked into another PJ thread that's been debated and debated and debated. Just another troll baiting the hook. If you wanna waste your time reading the BS and clogging up bandwidth then by all means! Have Fun!
Originally posted by: umbrella39
Originally posted by: ericlp
Must be PJ himself or his brother. It's getting old tho...
Not gonna get sucked into another PJ thread that's been debated and debated and debated. Just another troll baiting the hook. If you wanna waste your time reading the BS and clogging up bandwidth then by all means! Have Fun!
Take 1 part hellokeith add some PJ
Add to that 2 parts ripronin and what do you get? You get the picture. There must be a fire sale on old, unused accounts at freeperville.
Originally posted by: PJABBER
Question: What's the difference between God and a Democrat?
Answer: God knows He's not a Democrat.
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: PJABBER
Question: What's the difference between God and a Democrat?
Answer: God knows He's not a Democrat.
So all Republicans are Gods.
Gotcha
Originally posted by: Sacrilege
Any climate change that kills off millions of the worlds poor is just Mother Nature's way of correcting imbalance. Why should we care about people who contribute nothing to human existence?
If you haven't noticed, the entire worlds economy is based on consumption. Dead people don't consume anything, and can't be exploited.Originally posted by: Sacrilege
Any climate change that kills off millions of the worlds poor is just Mother Nature's way of correcting imbalance. Why should we care about people who contribute nothing to human existence?
Originally posted by: PJABBER
There is an interesting corollary to the position expressed in the original post. Right now the developing countries are blowing off climate change alarmism. But what would happen if, as part of the cap and trade scheme, the U.S. imposes punitive measures against those countries that are not as "enlightened" as we are?
Cap-and-trade would trigger a new global trade war
Washington Examiner
August 6, 2009
Among the least-discussed flaws in the Obama-Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that recently passed the House and pending in the Senate is the serious damage it will inflict upon international commerce and trade. Steven Chu, President Obama's energy secretary, warned in March that "if other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage." To compensate, the argument goes, we would impose penalties - aka "tariffs" - on products bought by Americans and produced in other countries that don't abide by politically correct limits on carbon emissions.
This is why the bill would undermine America's legitimate overseas interests by authorizing carbon tariffs against products produced by our new global competitors like China and India, which refuse to participate in anti-global warming schemes. These same countries would in turn impose retaliatory tariffs on American exports that, like virtually all tariffs, would ultimately harm businesses, workers and consumers here at home.
Policymakers need only go back to the dishonorable history of the Smoot Hawley tariff of 1930 that was designed to protect American industry and revive the economy from the then-young Great Depression. Instead, Smoot-Hawley constrained growth, with spiraling unemployment and widespread misery the result. There is every reason to expect a similar result today if Obama-Waxman-Markey becomes law. India made it crystal clear during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's July visit there that the world's largest democracy has no plans to join any anti-emissions schemes that reduce economic growth.
With anti-Americanism on the rise throughout Europe, Russia resurgent, and China on the rise, it helps to have allies like India that are willing to forge meaningful economic and military ties. But Obama-Waxman-Markey could jeopardize this relationship even as the measure does next to nothing to curb global warming. Moreover, a wave of new scientific studies are casting growing doubts about the legitimacy of global warming claims made by big-name outfits such as the UN's Inter-governmental Protocol on Climate Change (IPCC).
Senators now preparing to take up the House-passed version of Obama-Waxman-Markey should heed the miserable failure of cap-and-trade in the European Union. France has proposed that such tariffs be imposed against non-EU nations that do not submit to a new deal on climate change. A top German official has described the proposed U.S. carbon tax as "a new form of eco-imperialism." Instead of mimicking self-destructive European practices, American leaders should roll back punitive energy regulations at home and bolster alliances that count abroad!
Cap-and-trade would trigger a new global trade war
Your arguments are tendentious and intellectually dishonest. The fact that you continually use the term "climate change alarmism" and quote reports that consistently use the same term clearly shows that you and the reporters you quote have pre-judged the validity of anthropogenic climate change.
There's no point in responding to the content of your posts - you clearly have a closed mind.
Originally posted by: PJABBER
shirasez,
Your arguments are tendentious and intellectually dishonest. The fact that you continually use the term "climate change alarmism" and quote reports that consistently use the same term clearly shows that you and the reporters you quote have pre-judged the validity of anthropogenic climate change.
There's no point in responding to the content of your posts - you clearly have a closed mind.
Life is suffering.
The Second Noble Truth locates the origin of suffering - desire. The other side of desire is aversion, pushing away that which you don't want.
In your ignorance, you redouble your efforts to attain the very things that caused your suffering in the first place. Any change, including that of the ideas that you may hold now, leads to the pain and disappointment of loss. Attachment to what is endearing and alluring binds you to the wheel of samsara, the endless cycle of death and rebirth that prolongs your suffering, lifetime after lifetime.
Change isn't always negative. It is the very essence of life, it is vital to growth. Maybe, with time and contemplation you will see this.
As for myself, I both embark on and offer paths to wisdom, not one of which you need to take until you are ready or wish to.
My life is one of contemplation and the seeking of enlightenment.
Have you heard the term "bodhisattva?"
The nature of the bodhisattva is apparent from a teaching story in which three people are walking through a desert.
Parched and thirsty, they spy a high wall ahead. They approach and circumnavigate it, but it has no entrance or doorway.
One climbs upon the shoulders of the others, looks inside, yells "Eureka" and jumps inside. The second then climbs up and repeats the actions of the first. The third laboriously climbs the wall without assistance and sees a lush garden inside the wall. It has cooling water, trees, fruit, etc. But, instead of jumping into the garden, the third person jumps back out into the desert and seeks out desert wanderers to tell them about the garden and how to find it.
The third person is the bodhisattva.
Originally posted by: Ozoned
I was not aware that Moonbeam had offspring. Heh heh.
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Oh God, I how have a whole army of eco-imperialists under my bed. Whatever am I going to do. I'm so scared.
