Actually, I think Gash has a valid point. Despite the fact America is involved in, what is it now, three wars? (Although Haiti doesn't really count any more, does it?) CNN is giving up way too much time to Ronald Reagan and they're praising him way too much.
If even half of that stuff written above is true, not the opinion stuff, the stuff that either happned or didn't, like an embargo for an elected government, or funded death squads, then Reagan shouldn't be praised, people should be going 'about damn time'. And I've got a feeling it is true.
Oh, and one little point, Kas, why dont' you care about the environment? You live here, your survival depends on the environment remaining pretty much exactly as it is, don't you think we should be careful not to disrupt it?
Everyone spends all of their @#%$ time staring at this @#%$ picture of his coffin sitting in Washington.
CNN, Fox News, they've all spent the last few days dwelling on this like we lost an American hero. We didn't. Visit BBC.com. The world has not stopped spinning. While we stared at a coffin draped in a flag and sang sad songs about God, Jesus, and apple pie, news stories that were actually important passed us by. I think that's irresponsible. But I guess we know that Reagan dead gets more ratings than, for instance, this.
And Kas doesn't care about the environment because it is most convenient for him to not believe there is any environmental crisis. Otherwise he might feel like a hypocrite for spending all of his time being angry about gay people while the corporations he verbally fellates on this board burn the world god supposedly created at the stake.
It's where I live, I guess. I live in an area where, in almost any direction, you can drive and drive and drive ... and see nothing but trees. I hear people saying we're having a tree shortage. Come to Minnesota, you can hug all the trees you want.
Think of how Gash reacts when I mention Mozilla. It's the same way, I'm open to listening to a rational discussion, and I'm not against changing my ways or gaining a new perspective, but if you try any mother earth stuff on me I tune you out like a bad radio station.
Nah, I was talking about how all the truly fanatical environmentalists up here (eg: spikers) seem to come from the Twin Cities, rather than from Duluth...
Most of the Earth is, right now, pretty good. We may be burning the rainforests and polluting the atmosphere and all that, but we havn't been doing it nearly enough yet for it to be a big deal.
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Over time, it will. Its' only logical. You cannot honestly say breathing in a lungful of car smoke or drinking a bottle of industrial waste won't be bad for you. And a lot of this is stuff that just wouldn't happen, or wouldn't happen in nearly these quantities to affect nature naturally. So obviously, if we're doing something bad, and nature isn't designed to cope with it, sooner or later we'll regret it.
Well, gee Kas. That's like saying "The enviromentalists in Africa are all from the States". Why the @#%$ would there be enviromentalists in Backwater, Whogivesafuck, when all they see is the splendor of nature all around . You need to see the effects of strip mining and deforestation before you want to fight against it. It's fine to sit around and live off the fat of metropolian civilization, but until your area is personally threatened with that lifestyle full-on, don't bother giving a @#%$.
