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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard

3192 Posts

Posted - 04/29/2005 :  12:13:28  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7677494/

Good to know they are doing the opposite of what their goal is, hooray for Presidential appointments.

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini

Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist

USA
4955 Posts

Posted - 04/29/2005 :  12:21:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Cuneiformist a Private Message
This is crazy! The article starts out saying
quote:
An internal Environmental Protection Agency report estimates the Southeast alone could reap up to $2 billion a year in benefits from reducing mercury pollution — 40 times more than the $50 million in benefits the agency projected publicly for the entire nation.

Critics said the report shows the Bush administration sought to minimize the benefits of reducing mercury pollution in order to justify not requiring power plant owners to buy the most effective technology for lowering mercury emissions.
In other words, instead of saving taxpayers billions, our fucking President would rather his precious energy companies be spared the expense of not polluting. Jesus Christ! Can there be any question that this is the worst administration this country has had in decades?!?

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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard

3192 Posts

Posted - 04/29/2005 :  12:56:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
Warning if the destruction of the environment disturbs you you may not want to click this link and see the whole bush record...

Man the NDRC did a truly amazing job on this site, I recommend a link to SFN.

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend

Sweden
9687 Posts

Posted - 04/29/2005 :  13:19:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
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Women who are or may become pregnant, as well as nursing mothers and young children, are most susceptible to mercury pollution from fish. As a result the Food and Drug Administration and the EPA have come up with these guidelines for fish eaters:
The thing is that there shouldn't have to be any guidelines at all. The mere existance of them should be a clue that something is seriously wrong with the environment, and should be dealt with.

Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse

Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard

USA
6891 Posts

Posted - 04/29/2005 :  14:55:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
quote:
Can there be any question that this is the worst administration this country has had in decades?!?



Decades? I'd replace "in decades" with "EVER".


Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

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The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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Dude
SFN Die Hard

USA
6891 Posts

Posted - 04/29/2005 :  16:00:00   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
And this up on MSNBC.com this afternoon.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7665636/

quote:
“There can no longer be genuine doubt that humanmade gases are the dominant cause of observed warming,” said Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “This energy imbalance is the ‘smoking gun' that we have been looking for.”




added emphasis.


Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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filthy
SFN Die Hard

USA
14408 Posts

Posted - 04/29/2005 :  17:39:50   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dude

And this up on MSNBC.com this afternoon.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7665636/

quote:
“There can no longer be genuine doubt that humanmade gases are the dominant cause of observed warming,” said Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “This energy imbalance is the ‘smoking gun' that we have been looking for.”




added emphasis.



Yeah, but try and tell that scummy, little corporate pimp with the obviously syphilis-damaged brain in the White House that.


"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

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