--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Bottom line, you > denegate "rich white liberals" for no particular > reason other than to create your > usual demons.
Bob, what is it about you that makes you _unable_ to credit people who disagree with you about honest motives? I mean, really, this is why I'm so reluctant to discuss things with you. I denigrate the "rich white liberals" who made this decision because they're the people who, consistently, make self-flattering decisions that (in this case) have led to hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of deaths. You're a rich white liberal. I don't denigrate you. But I'm not rich, and I'm not white, and (for that matter) I'm not even liberal. But gee, do ya think maybe I could honestly identify with the people who die because of their arrogance and self-righteousness, and not the people who make the decisions? What, of the many things you know about me, being the son of immigrants from India who went to a public school where at least a third of the students were on welfare, might _possibly_ incline me to be more sympathetic to poor people from the Third World dying of malaria than rich people from the Upper East Side who decided their deaths were preferable to listening to the scientific evidence? We identify with different people. Instead of maligning me, you might try to get outside of your own head for 30 seconds and see that one. Incidentally, it's not true that the evidence on DDT is all that new. In the court case on the subject conducted in the _1970s_ the judge ruled that DDT was not a carcinogen. The EPA banned it anyways. > > By the way, Pedro looked good in his first start for > the mets. Yes, he looked excellent. Let's just hope that he's rehabbed his shoulder properly. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
