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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 01/03/2009 : 08:49:56
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5430362.ece
The EU has a president?
Ok. Couldn't they do better than this idiot?
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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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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2009 : 11:30:46 [Permalink]
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The presidency of the EU rotates between the head of states of its member's countries.
Last one was the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, a personal nemesis of mine and a gnomoid with Naopoleon complex and, according to rumours, a covert Scientologist and a wife-beater.
The new one does not seems much smarter but he probably still is an improvement... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2009 : 12:11:41 [Permalink]
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My point was, really, just wondering how a European country (or the EU) could get a climate change denier in high office.
The US I get, because we are (collectively) pretty fucking retarded. Just thought that Europeans were a bit more reality based.
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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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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2009 : 13:17:17 [Permalink]
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| Nah; the stupid is like a can of magical Nutella... not matter how universally you spread it, the layer is always just as thick. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 01/03/2009 : 13:32:46 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Nah; the stupid is like a can of magical Nutella... not matter how universally you spread it, the layer is always just as thick.
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It's pretty sad when one like myself has to seek stupidity in other lands in order to retain pride in my own, but that's the way Dubya has left things.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 01/03/2009 : 13:34:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
My point was, really, just wondering how a European country (or the EU) could get a climate change denier in high office.
The US I get, because we are (collectively) pretty fucking retarded. Just thought that Europeans were a bit more reality based.
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Nah. In the final analysis, we are all exactly the same, with the same imbecilic bent toward trying to ignore that which might be inconvenient for us, and the embracing of that which might, with no encouraging evidence at all of it's existence, be to our future enrichment.
I sometimes wonder if sapience is not some sort of divine punishment inflicted by a depraved Bedlamite of a god.
Geologic history tells us that climate change has happened often, and there is no reason to think that it will not continue to do so. There is no reason to think that it is not happening even as we speak, assisted by our own activities. But we will collectivly drown in our own rancid sweat before we will acknowledge that, and that's what all forms of fundamentalism are all about. Klaus is just another science ignoring idiot little different from our home-grown, ultra-religious idiots. Fortunately, he will be gone at the end of his tenure. Also fortunately, all Europeans don't have to march to the beat of his slack-headed drum, and won't. I don't see it as all that big of a deal, really.
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"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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