On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:19 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > Good one, Chris. > > But you can tell from the posts here that what drives the Deniers is fear of > government. In the U.S. since the Viet Nam war there has developed a > widespread distrust of government as incompetent, corrupt, and oppressive.
Well, it also doesn't help that almost everything that comes out of the government's mouth turns out to be a lie. They lied about WMDs in Iraq, they lied about closing down Guantanamo, they lied about repealing the patriot act (and in fact extended its scope through the NDAA), they lie about drugs, they lied about the scope of drone use, they lied about not spying on everybody and they lied about protecting whisteblowers. Just to name a few. These are all indisputable, direct lies about very serious matters. As for oppression we have the humiliation rituals enforced by the TSA, the militarisation of the police forces, the ongoing attempts at censoring the Internet, total surveillance, free-speech zones, the persecution of brilliant benevolent kids like Aaron Schwartz, who committed suicide because we was going to be thrown into jail for downloading scientific papers. I am very sad that he had to go through that, but also happy that the bandits couldn't get their hands on him. Probably you're going to reply with some apologies for your favourite team, and claim that it's the other team's fault. I don't care about any of that. I care about the end result: lies. The Democrats vs. Republicans reality show is a clever way to explore our tribal instincts. > And global warming, once it is accepted as a problem we should do something > about, is obviously of such scope it will take some government action. The > irony is that if the problem is addressed now the actions taken can be > relatively benign. But the Deniers don't even want the problem to be > recognized. So by spreading doubt and manufacturing controversy about the > science, action will be delayed until drastic measures will be necessary. > > Brent > > > On 11/13/2013 4:18 PM, chris peck wrote: > > http://adaptationresourcekit.squarespace.com/storage/climate%20change%20cartoons_better%20world.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1302730968594 > > > > > > ________________________________ > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:48:50 -0800 > From: meeke...@verizon.net > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Global warming silliness > > On 11/13/2013 1:19 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > More than ~2 million peer-reviewed articles approved the Bible stories > beween 1599 and 2010. > > > But did they provide any data? > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4158 / Virus Database: 3629/6831 - Release Date: 11/12/13 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
