Jim wrote: Bush is a rich, country club kid, and that is what drives his actions, or lack of actions. And he wants to validate himself with the rich and powerful, so he pretends to be powerful by: 1. throwing other people's money at the rich and powerful, 2. weakening social, economic and environmental controls to the rich becoming irresponsibly more so, and 3. throwing away other people's lives to accomplish the aims of the rich and powerful, so they will accept him. Its all pretty short-sighted from my point of view, but it isn't racist.
Shortsighted it is, and an understatement at that. Did anyone else get to see that article on the official website of the Project for a New American Century which indicated that the Bush Administration considered 20 million American lives an acceptable loss in a *winnable* nuclear war? I saw that article on the website around about 2002, as I recall. Long since removed, obviously... So what's a paltry 2,000 in Iraq, and 7-800 in New Orleans? Not only that, but what's the point of worrying about the environment when the Second Coming is imminent, eh? http://www.mindfully.org/Heritage/2003/Bush-War-On-Nature6jan03.htm Difficult as it may be to believe, many of the right-wing conservatives who have great influence in the Bush administration and now in Congress are governed by a higher power. In his book "The Carbon Wars," Greenpeace activist Jeremy Leggett tells how he stumbled upon this otherworldly agenda. During Kyoto Protocol climate change negotiations, Leggett candidly asks Ford Motor Co. executive John Schiller how opponents of the pact could believe there is no problem with "a world of a billion cars intent on burning all the oil and gas available on the planet." The executive asserts first that scientists get it wrong when they say fossil fuels have been sequestered underground for eons. The earth, he says, is just 10,000 years old -- not 4.5 billion years old, the age widely accepted by scientists. Then Schiller drops the bomb: "You know, the more I look, the more it is just as it says in the Bible." The Book of Daniel, he tells Leggett, predicts that increased earthly devastation will mark the End Time and return of Christ. Paradoxically, Leggett notes, many fundamentalists see dying coral reefs, melting ice caps and other environmental destruction not as an urgent call to action but as God's will. Within the religious right worldview, the wreck of the earth is Good News! Some true believers, interpreting biblical prophecy, are sure they will be saved from the horrific destruction brought by ecosystem collapse. They'll be raptured: rescued from earth by God, who will then rain down seven ghastly years of misery on unbelieving humanity. During this tribulation, a powerful ruler led by Satan and called the antichrist will rule the world. Then Jesus will come in glory to defeat Satan's forces at the battle of Armageddon. His return marks the Millennium, when the Lord restores the earth to its green pristine condition, and the faithful enjoy a thousand years of peace and prosperity. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
