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[Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:43 PM, <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:
> The lack of political "discussions" is not due to censorship but rather
> because continuing to mindlessly bash Bush over every ill from world
hunger to
> the sink drain being clogged is ridiculous to even the ardent Bush-hater
by
> this date.

Does this mean you think Bush was okay as a president? He started a couple
of wars we can't afford, and presided over the collapse of our financial
system. In my opinion neither of those are good things.

This is not to say that the current administration is getting a good review
from moi. It's hard to say what ought to be done about the wars in progress,
but rewarding the barons of Wall Street for screwing over the financial
sector is very poor.

> For example, one of the things you could not have rumors about is the
> heinous sin of doubting Global Warming.   I used to wonder what it would
have
> been like to live in the middle ages when the church and governments
imposed a
> belief system that included witchcraft, demon possession, astrology,
> spontaneous generation, and all such folderoll.  Well, now I know what
it's like.

As I mention from time to time, I'm glad I'm closer tothe end of my life
than the beginning. The polar ice is melting, and Brazil had a huge drought
a few years ago that release nearly as much CO2 asis released by Europe and
Japan in regular years (in normal years, Brazil's rainforests absorbs 3
billion tons of COS2; it the drought year it gave off 2 billion tons). We
won't need too many of those to tip us into catastrophe.

The Middle Ages has bubonic plague and anthrax. We may end up with our own
catastrophes -- same dimension, different cause.

Marie