original thread. I dislike political correctness wherever I find it
and yanno I think the administration is engaging in it on this topic.
I read this morning where it is witholding its share of some
contraceptive program because it does not put enough emphasis on
abstinence to meet their ideological criteria. Ya. Abstinence. Tell it
to the women who disappeared after being locked up in Abu Ghraib.
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:20:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Kerry's record in Senate
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We discussed this last week. The left was saying the
NIH was forced to change their Web site. The study
that said there was no link came out years after the
study that did say there was a link. So they might be
toying with dates.
http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=m:5:13157:118215
--- dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> excuse me.
>
> When did breast cancer become a "left-wing" issue?
>
> Dana
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:14:28 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: Kerry's record in Senate
> To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> --- "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Say what. Claiming that the group is some vague
> > commie,
> > anti-capitalist group is not refuting the charges.
> > All these different
> > claimshave been adequately documented (see the
> > footnotes). Try again
> > monkey boy.
> >
> > larry
>
> Did you reply to the Gorelick issue? Does this mean
> you agree she did build a wall?
> If I were really a right wing nut I'd say she built
> that wall to cover Clintons China missile scandal.
> But
> I'm not so I won't J
>
> OK, I went back and tried to read the document. It
> focuses way too much on politics rather then
> science.
>
> I came across the reference to the aluminum tubes
> for
> the centrifuge and the breast cancer issue we
> discussed last week. This is pure left wing stuff.
> If
> you want to pick a specific item with references
> I'll
> debate that but to hand me a DNC play book and say
> dispute everything, I don't have the time.
>
> As for the monkey boy, how old are you?
>
> As for your left wing group:
>
>
> By any real scientific yardstick, the Union of
> Concerned Scientists has a lousy track record. Their
> predictions are often laughably, and sometimes
> tragically, wrong. A few examples:
>
> In 1997 UCS organized a petition that warned of
> "global warming" and advocated U.S. ratification of
> the Kyoto treaty. It was signed by 1,600 scientists,
> and so UCS declared that "the scientific community
> has
> reached a consensus." But when a counter-petition
> that
> questioned this so-called "consensus" was signed by
> more than 17,000 other scientists, UCS declared it a
> "deliberate attempt to deceive the scientific
> community with misinformation."
>
> UCS invested significant resources in "a multiyear
> effort to protect Bacillus thuringiensis, a valuable
> natural pesticide, by bringing high visibility to a
> preliminary report on the toxic effect of transgenic
> [biotech] corn pollen on the Monarch Butterfly."
> Unfortunately for them, both the USDA and the EPA
> have
> concluded that Bt corn is only a threat to the
> crop-devastating insects it's supposed to kill.
>
> Based, we suppose, on some "science" or other, UCS's
> Margaret Mellon predicted in 1999 that American
> farmers would reduce their planting of genetically
> enhanced seeds in the year 2000, saying it "probably
> represents a turning point." What happened? Just the
> reverse. Planting of biotech crops has increased in
> 2000, 2001 and 2002 -- and shows no sign of slowing
> down.
>
> In 1980 UCS predicted that the earth would soon run
> out of fossil fuels. "It is now abundantly clear,"
> the
> group wrote, "that the world has entered a period of
> chronic energy shortages." Oops! Known reserves of
> oil, coal and natural gas have never been higher,
> and
> show every sign of increasing.
>
> To improve fuel efficiency, UCS argues for lighter
> tires on SUVs. But lighter tires are blamed -- even
> by
> Ralph's Nader's Public Citizen -- for tread
> separation. 148 deaths and more than 500 injuries
> were
> attributed to tread separation in Firestone tires
> alone.
> UCS apparently hasn't learned from its many, many
> mistakes. But if at first you don't succeed, scare,
> scare again.
>
>
>
>
>
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